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- Contact
- Emilio Robles
- Apple Computer, Inc.
- 408 862 5671
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- Toni Giusti
- Cunningham Communication, Inc.
- 408 764 0737
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- Apple Announces Beta Macintosh on RISC SDK Now Available to
- Developers
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- 13 Third Party Tool Vendors Support Power Macintosh Application
- Development Efforts
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- Cupertino, California--March 28, 1994--As part of its overall Power
- Macintosh product strategy, Apple Computer Inc., today announced
- that the beta release of the Macintosh on RISC Software Developer's
- Kit (SDK) is now shipping and that a full suite of third party
- development tools for the newly released Power Macintosh is
- available. The Macintosh on RISC Software Developer's Kit includes
- all the tools and documentation necessary to create new applications
- or port existing Macintosh applications--using C or C++--to run
- native on Apple PowerPC processor-based systems.
- "The beta release of the Macintosh on RISC SDK is an important
- milestone in the delivery of the Power Macintosh since it marks the
- wide availability of tools that can be used to build shipping
- versions of Power Macintosh applications," said Ike Nassi, vice-
- president of the Development Products Group for AppleSoft, a division
- of Apple Computer. "Now we will see even more native applications
- that take full advantage of the performance of the Power Macintosh."
- On March 14, Apple unveiled Power Macintosh--a new line of Apple
- Macintosh personal computers that offer the power of workstation
- computers, the affordability of mainstream personal computers, and
- the capability to run applications for Macintosh, MS-DOS, and
- Microsoft Windows. The Power Macintosh systems are based on the new
- PowerPC 601 RISC microprocessor, jointly developed by Apple, IBM and
- Motorola. At launch, there were 20 Power Macintosh optimized
- applications from Third Parties shipping, with an additional 50
- slated for delivery within 30 days.
- Third Party Tools Support Power Macintosh Application Development
- Apple along with a number of third party developers also announced
- today the availability of a wide-range of Power Macintosh development
- tools, including native C and C++ development environments and a
- Power Macintosh implementation of Smalltalk. These products provide
- a breadth of tools to meet the needs of a diverse Macintosh
- development community. In addition, they provide the tools that will
- allow developers not currently developing for the Macintosh to easily
- transition from other operating system environments and hardware
- platforms to the Power Macintosh.
- "The Developer Products Group (DPG) has been working with a wide
- range of developers to ensure that their needs for tools for
- transitioning to Power Macintosh from the 680x0 based Macintosh and
- other platforms were met," said Jordan Mattson, product marketing
- manager and evangelist for Power Macintosh Tools, "Our partners in
- the third-party tools community have risen to the challenge and are
- delivering a full range of Power Macintosh developer tools."
- Among the companies announcing Power Macintosh tools are:
- - Absoft Corporation announced the availability within thirty days
- of the Absoft FORTRAN 77SDK for Power Macintosh and the Absoft
- C/C++SDK for Power Macintosh, complete packages for developing for
- the Power Macintosh using FORTRAN or C/C++.
- For more information, contact Absoft Corporation at 2781 Bond Street,
- Rochester Hills, MI 48309. (313) 853-0050.
-
- - ACI US, Inc. announced the immediate availability of Object Master
- for Power Macintosh, an integrated programming environment for
- Pascal, C, and C++.
- For more information, contact ACI US, Inc. at 20883 Stevens Creek
- Boulevard, Cupertino, California. (408) 252-4444.
-
- - Bowers Development announced the immediate availability of
- AppMaker, Your Assistant Programmer for Power Macintosh. AppMaker, an
- interface builder, allows you to easily create the interface for a
- Macintosh application.
- For more information, contact Bowers Development at 97 Lowell Road,
- Concord, MA 01742. (408) 369-8175.
-
- - Bare-Bones Software announced the availability within sixty days
- of BBEdit for Power Macintosh.
- BBEdit,is a high-performance programmer's editor.
- For more information, contact Bare-Bones Software at 1 Larkspur Way,
- #4, Natick, MA 01760. (508) 651-3561.
-
- - AT&T Bell Laboratories announced the immediate availability of
- FlashPort Translation services for Power Macintosh. Using binary-to-binary
- translation technology, FlashPort translates existing 680x0 Macintosh
- applications to Power Macintosh applications.
- For more information, contact AT&T Bell Laboratories at Cruz Plaza,
- 943 Holmdel Road, Holmdel, NJ 07733. (908) 946-1140.
-
- - Jasik Designs announced the immediate availability of The Debugger
- V2 & MacNosy. The Debugger V2 & MacNosy is a high-level and low-
- level debugger for 680x0 and Power Macintosh applications. It
- provides tools for code coverage analysis, incremental linking, and
- global disassembly.
- For more information, contact Jasik Designs at 343 Trenton Way, Menlo
- Park, CA 94025. (415) 322-1386.
-
- - Language Systems Corporation announced the availability within
- sixty days of Language Systems FORTRAN/PPC and Language Systems
- Pascal. Language Systems FORTRAN/PPC is a FORTRAN compiler for Power
- Macintosh. Language Systems Pascal is an Object Pascal compiler for
- the Power Macintosh.
- For more information, contact Language Systems Corporation at 100
- Carpenter Drive, Sterling, VA 20164. (800) 2-LANGSYS
-
- - Metrowerks announced the immediate availability of CodeWarrior, a
- native Power Macintosh development environment for C, C++, and
- Pascal. In addition, CodeWarrior provides PowerPlant, an object-
- oriented application framework.
- For more information, contact Metrowerks at 1500 Du College, Suite
- 300, St. Laurent, Quebec H4L5G6, Canada. (514) 747-5999.
-
- - MicroAPL Ltd., announced the immediate availability of PortAsm a
- 680x0 to PowerPC assembly language translator.
- For more information, contact MicroAPL Ltd., at West Bank Techno
- Park, London SE16LN, United Kingdom. 447-1922-8866.
-
- - Prograph International announced the availability in the third
- quarter of 1994 of Prograph CPX for Power Macintosh. Prograph CPX is an
- application development environment featuring a comprehensive, extensible
- application framework and application editors implemented in a completely
- visual, object-oriented language.
-
- - Quasar Knowledge Systems announced the availability in the second
- quarter of 1994 of Smalltalk Agents for Power Macintosh a dynamic
- tool for authoring applications and agents using Smalltalk.
- For more information, contact Quasar Knowledge Systems, Inc. at 9818
- Parkwood Drive, Bethesda, MD 20814. (301) 530-4853.
-
- - Sierra Software Innovations announced the availability within
- sixty days of Inside Out II, a multi-user relational database engine
- for use with Pascal and C/C++.
- For more information, contact Sierra Software Innovations at 923
- Tahoe Blvd., Suite 102, Incline Village, NV 89451. (702) 832-0300.
-
- - Symantec, as part of its announcement of Symantec C++ 7.0,
- announced the immediate availability of the Power Macintosh cross
- development kit. The Power Macintosh cross development kit allows
- developers to port their Symantec C++ applications to Power Macintosh.
- For more information contact Symantec Corporation, 10201 Torre
- Avenue, Cupertino, CA 95014 (408) 253-9600
-
- Developers of Power Macintosh tools expressed excitement at the
- potential of the Power Macintosh.
- "The new Power Macintosh represents a quantum leap in processing
- power and our new compiler architecture was designed specifically for
- RISC processors and advanced architectures such as this incredible
- machine," said Greg Galanos, president and CEO of Metrowerks.
- According to David Simmons, president of Quasar Knowledge Systems:
- "SmalltalkAgents supports the creation of sophisticated applications
- and agents that are capable of supporting multiple processes and
- threads simultaneously. Power Macintosh will enable SmalltalkAgents
- developers to take advantage of these features to create new classes
- of products that work intelligently to enable ubiquitous
- collaborative and agent applications and services."
- Over time, Apple expects the range of Power Macintosh developer tools
- to expand, as additional vendors deliver products that will allow
- software developers to use the enormous processing power of the Power
- Macintosh for new, creative applications and breakthrough solutions.
- Macintosh on RISC SDK Pricing, Availability
- The Macintosh on RISC SDK is available from Apple Programmers and
- Developers' Association (APDA). In the US the SDK is priced at US$399.00.
- Pricing will vary overseas. Apple also announced that the Macintosh on
- RISC SDK will be available as part of Apple' E-T-O--Essentials, Tools,
- Objects product starting with the next issue. International
- customers should contact their local Apple or APDA office for
- details of local pricing and availability. Apple plans that
- customers purchasing the SDK will receive the current beta release
- and any interim releases up to and including the final release. In
- addition to the Macintosh on RISC SDK, APDA carries a number of the
- third-party Power Macintosh tools listed above. For more
- information, contact APDA.
- APDA offers convenient worldwide access to hundreds of Apple and
- third-party development tools, resources, and information for anyone
- interested in developing applications on Apple computer platforms.
- For a free copy of the APDA Tools Catalog, call 1-800-282-2732 (US.),
- 1-800-637 0029 (Canada), or (716) 871-6555 (International).
- Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ:
- AAPL) develops, manufactures and markets personal computer, server,
- and personal interactive electronic systems for use in business, education,
- the home, science, engineering and government. A recognized pioneer and
- innovator in the information industry, Apple does business in more than 120
- countries.
- Apple, the Apple logo, APDA and Macintosh are registered trademarks and
- Power Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. PowerPC and
- PowerPC 601 are trademarks of International Business Machines, used
- under license therefrom. MS-DOS is a registered trademark and Windows
- is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other brand names
- mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
- holders.
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