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In 1989 Thomas Fenwick left to work for Microsoft, and James Goodnow worked on Aztec C occasionally but was pursuing other projects outside the company and eventually left the company altogether. Suckow employed about 20 people at that time. Chris Macey returned as a consultant but eventually left to become chief scientist for another company. Mike Spille joined Manx as a developer along with the late Jeff Davis (embedded systems).
 
Throughout the 1990s they continued to make their Aztec [[C (programming language)|C]]. As their market share dropped, they tried to make the move to specializing in [[Embedded system|embedded systems development]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sltf.com/articles/pein/pein9103.htm|title=PC chipsets build a firm foundation for embedded applications|work=sltf.com|accessdate=24 June 2016}}</ref> but it was too late. They disappeared a few years back following the loss of market presence of some of their target platforms (various [[MOS Technology 6502|6502]] machines, [[Atari]] and [[Amiga]] [[68000|68xxx]], etc.).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~csmweb/decompilation/hist-c-pc.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=November 22, 2007 |deadurlurl-status=yesdead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071215083657/http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~csmweb/decompilation/hist-c-pc.html |archivedate=December 15, 2007 }}</ref>
 
In the end, Jeff Davis and Mike Spille helped Harry Suckow keep the company going before Suckow finally closed it. Suckow is still the Copyright holder for Aztec C.