mac.2269ljubisha,
-> #2268, kmilan > madamov wrote to kmilan:
Oćeš li da prestaneš više sa rekonfigurisanjem QWK-a? :)
> multitasking OS sa novim proširenim funkcijama. Isti OS postoji za
> Mac-a (MagiCMac - kažu da je strašno brz :) ljubisha može da kaže
> više o tome) i PC (MagiCPC - 5x86/133 - brzina običnog ST-a)
Osim što je 'idiotski' brz na windoze mašinama na Mac-u radi
brzinom munje. Znaš da ja radim na 25MHz i to je brže od Falkona.
Kako li je tek na Power-u? :)
Što se tiče samog njega kao OS-a i dalje je to zakrpa a pogotovo
što radi sa EKSTERNIM aplikacijama za kopiranje ili formatiranje. Sve
to nije (mislim, jeste ali...) u njemu što možda i jeste dobro ali sad
nije reč o tome. :)
mac.2270madamov,
-> #2267, haevorn> stigao, ali Nikonov scanner i dalje odbija
> da radi kad je on ukljucen... :(
Jeste, stigao je i do mene. B)
mac.2271madamov,
-> #2268, kmilan> Isti OS postoji za Mac-a (MagiCMac - kažu da je strašno brz :)
Imam i ja to instalirano, to je samo još jedna od aplikacija na mom Meku
(jeste da mi zarobi celu mašinu, ali mogu da se prebacujem iz Atarija u Meka u
kojem imam već startovanih n programa). Nije baš reč o OS-u, bar ne na Meku.
mac.2272kmilan,
-> #2271, madamov>> Isti OS postoji za Mac-a (MagiCMac - kažu da je strašno brz :)
>Imam i ja to instalirano, to je samo još jedna od aplikacija na mom Meku
>(jeste da mi zarobi celu mašinu, ali mogu da se prebacujem iz Atarija u Meka
>u kojem imam već startovanih n programa). Nije baš reč o OS-u, bar ne na Meku.
Imaš? Da ali na Atariju jeste OS :) da li si probao da formatiraš disketu u
pozadini na MagiCMac-u ;) ?
mac.2273madamov,
TidBITS#368/03-Mar-97
=====================
Are you a hotshot at using Macs to build full-text search engines
for the Web? Enter the first-ever TidBITS Macintosh Search Tool
Shootout! Also this week, we bring you part two of Stuart
Cheshire's article on latency and bandwidth, plus information on
new versions of Internet Explorer and Quicken. Also, our field
correspondents report on highlights from Macworld Tokyo, and we
call for additional TidBITS translators.
Topics:
MailBITS/03-Mar-97
TidBITS Macintosh Search Tool Shootout
Macworld Tokyo: Of Cameras and Macs
Bandwidth and Latency: It's the Latency, Stupid (Part 2)
<http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-368.html>
<ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/issues/1997/TidBITS#368_03-Mar-97.etx>
Copyright 1997 TidBITS Electronic Publishing. All rights reserved.
Information: <info@tidbits.com> Comments: <editors@tidbits.com>
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tidbits.368mac.2274madamov,
Iz najnovijeg TidBITS-a, ko želi neka proba B):
**Get Even Richer** -- If you were intrigued by the Crack A Mac
challenge underway in Sweden to break into a Macintosh Web server
(see TidBITS-365_) but felt pot wasn't sweet enough, you might be
interested to know that several Mac resellers have donated
additional funds to raise the jackpot to over $10,000 U.S. Of
course, you still have to alter the target server's home page to
claim the money. The contest runs through 10-Apr-97. [GD]
mac.2276madamov,
Rhapsody OS Specifics, Direct From the Source
Avie Tevanian, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering,
was recently interviewed by MacUser magazine on the future of Rhapsody
(the code name for Apple's upcoming operating system). As the former
head vice president of engineering at NeXT Software, Tevanian has
perhaps one of the most accurate views of what the future holds for this
operating system. The transcript of this interview is recommended
reading for Mac OS developers, because it provides a glimpse inside the
head of the person at the technical helm of Rhapsody development. In
this interview, Tevanian discusses the Rhapsody team's development
directions and release strategy. Most important, the interview provides
reassurance that Tevanian has a good understanding of what's important
to Mac OS users and developers. You can read the complete transcript at
the MacUser web site:
<http://www.zdnet.com/macuser/onlinecol/tevanian.html>
.
s
co reply mac
Tempo Will Be Called Mac OS 8
Apple has decided to call the next major release of its Macintosh
operating system Mac OS 8. (Its current code name is Tempo.) Among its
list of new features, Mac OS 8 includes a multitasking, PowerPC-native
Finder, which enables users to--for example--launch applications while
copying multiple files in background mode. The Mac OS 8 Finder will also
include folders that automatically open and windows that pop-up from the
bottom of the screen to help everyone get more organized. All the best
Internet services will be integrated, so customers can connect, browse,
and share information around the world--all with the industry-best ease
of use. Assistants will help customers get online in minutes, with
seamless access to best-of-class e-mail and web browsers. And with Mac
OS 8, users will be able to utilize the web to share information with
anyone, across multiple platforms.
For details on the reasons behind this Mac OS naming decision, see the
letter posted on the Developer World web site at:
<http://www.devworld.apple.com/>
mac.2275madamov,
Apple Announces Unified Printing Architecture for Future Mac OS
Releases
QuickDraw GX Printing to be Removed in Favor of "Classic" Printing
Manager Drivers
CUPERTINO, Calif.-- March 3, 1997--Apple Computer, Inc. today announced
plans to unify the dual printing architectures currently supported by the
Mac OS and standardize on the use of "classic" Printing Manager drivers,
such as LaserWriter and StyleWriter, for future Mac OS 7.x releases. In
a move to simplify users' printing experience, Apple plans to remove the
printing architecture component of QuickDraw GX, refocus QuickDraw GX as
a graphics solution, and continue to evolve its Printing Manager
drivers.
"Today's Mac OS users have access to two different print driver
architectures, along with two printing user interfaces," said Jim Gable,
vice president of AppleSoft marketing. "We believe that standardizing on
Printing Manager drivers will provide the best printing solution going
forward, while we continue to evolve the advanced color and type
features of QuickDraw GX."
Unified Printing Architecture
Beginning with the Mac OS scheduled to be released in July, code-named
Tempo, Apple will provide a unified operating system printing
architecture standardizing on the Printing Manager architecture's
drivers. With the unified printing architecture, QuickDraw GX printer
drivers and QuickDraw GX printing extensions will not be a user option
at
installation.
QuickDraw GX
Apple added QuickDraw GX to the Mac OS in 1993, as an extension to
QuickDraw, the graphics display system built into the first Macintosh.
QuickDraw GX was designed to provide additional color, graphics, text,
and printing capabilities. Under the new unified printing architecture
strategy, the printing architecture of QuickDraw GX will be removed and
the technology will be refocused as a graphics solution.
Impact on Developers
In place of the QuickDraw GX 1.1.5 architecture currently available, a
modified system will be delivered as a separate software library. The new
implementation of QuickDraw GX will continue to offer Apple developers
the advantages of superior graphic and typography features for Mac OS.
Developers of QuickDraw GX applications will be required to modify their
applications to use the new shared library to print via standard
"classic" print drivers. Apple is currently working with these developers
to aid them in updating their applications by providing a method that
lets them print their existing and future QuickDraw GX-based documents
via the current "classic" drivers for both PostScript and raster
printers. For more information, a Tech Note will be available at Apple's
developer website: <http://devworld.apple.com/dev/technotes.shtml/>
Benefits:
- Developers do not need to support and test multiple sets of printer
drivers.
- Developers who use QuickDraw GX features can reach a larger set of
Macintosh users.
Developer Reaction:
"I think this will make life a lot easier for us!"
-Adil Allawi, Technical Director of Diwan Software (Adil@diwan.com)
"We believe that the graphics component of QuickDraw GX provides
unparalleled capabilities to Apple in the fast-expanding Internet
publishing market, and can swiftly establish Apple as the leader. This
move simplifies the delivery of the sophisticated QuickDraw GX graphics
component to users."
-Mihail S. Lari, president of Lari Software Inc.
(mlari@larisoftware.com)
"PaceWorks was an early champion of focusing QuickDraw GX as a graphics
solution only, and we are therefore very supportive of the Unified
Printing Architecture. The ability to access the superior graphic and
typography features of GX without changing the printing system will be a
benefit for both users and developers. We appreciate the fact that Apple
is so proactive in preserving and improving the superior graphics
capabilities of GX in the future version of its operating system."
-Phac Le Tuan, President & CEO of PaceWorks, Inc.
(phac@paceworks.com)
Impact on Customers
Apple's new unified printing architecture will help provide a simplified
printing procedure for the customer. For applications that work in both
QuickDraw GX and classic printing environments, which describes the vast
majority of Macintosh software today, no changes will be necessary.
Customers wanting to print from QuickDraw GX applications will have to
obtain updated versions of the application to print via non-QuickDraw GX
Drivers.
Benefits:
- Users can benefit from GX enabled applications without installing GX
system software.
- Users no longer need to decide between two sets of printer drivers,
Classic, or QuickDraw GX.
mac.2277madamov,
Mac OS Market Share Rises to 11 Percent in Dealer Channel, Says Computer
Intelligence
According to Computer Intelligence (CI), based in La Jolla, California,
the Mac OS platform market share in the United States dealer channel
grew from 8 percent in November 1996 to 11 percent in January 1997.
During the same period, CI estimates that the Wintel platform sales
declined from 92% in November 1996 to 89% in January 1997. They
attribute much of the gain to the success of Mac OS compatibles,
particularly those from Motorola.
Looking at the table below, you can see that the Mac OS platform gained
market share in the dealer channel, with a growth rate dramatically
higher than the X86 platform from January 1996 to January 1997.
January '96 to January '97 Unit Growth in U.S. Dealer Desktop PC Sales
Platform Growth
X86.............-5.1%
Mac OS.........+61.4%
All PCs........ -0.6%
Source: Computer Intelligence, March 1997
To read the complete press release, see CI's web site:
<http://www.ci.zd.com/news/macos.html>
mac.2278madamov,
Krathwohl to Fill Roizen's Shoes
David Krathwohl was just appointed vice president of Apple Developer
Relations, filling the position previously held by Heidi Roizen. As vice
president of Apple Developer Relations, David Krathwohl is responsible
for building and maintaining relationships between Apple and its
developers worldwide, encouraging developer commitment to Apple
platforms, and defining programs that facilitate developer success. As
the former director of International Developer Relations, Krathwohl
brings a wealth of knowledge of Apple's Macintosh developer community to
his new position. For his complete biography, see this web site:
<http://devworld.apple.com/krathwohlbio.html>
mac.2279madamov,
Apple's CeBIT 97 Agenda, March 13 to 19, Hannover, Germany
Apple will once again show an exciting range of new technologies and
services at CeBIT 97, Europe's largest information technology trade
fair. This year Apple will display cutting-edge multiplatform Internet
solutions and technologies in areas such as publishing, mobile
computing, and software development. Developer attendees should be sure
to pay a visit to the Apple stand to check out the innovative twentieth-
anniversary Macintosh, and to view a demo of NeXT's OpenStep 4.1
operating system, which will be a precursor to Rhapsody.
Apple Activities at CeBIT 97 include the following:
What: Apple booths
Where: Main exhibition hall 12, stand C24, and "World of Media" stand in
hall 8
When: During normal exhibition hours
What: International press conference, "Apple OS and Software Strategy,"
hosted by Ellen Hancock, Apple's executive vice president, technology
office
Where: Hall 1, conference room "Rome"
When: Thursday, March 13, 1997
What: International press conference, "Apple Business Overview," hosted
by George Scalise, executive vice president of operations
Where: TCM, conference room 14/14
When: Friday, March 14, 1997
For more information on Apple at CeBIT 9197, see the special Apple CeBIT
web site:
<http://www.apple.de/cebit>
Apple Computer Australia will also have a strong presence at CeBIT. To
preview the Australian-developed technology solutions that Apple
Australia will feature, visit this web site:
<http://www.apple.com.au/documents/developer.html>
mac.2280madamov,
WebBytes--Pointers to More News, Software, and Stuff
--> Cast Your Vote in the Macworld Confidence Poll
Macworld is currently sponsoring an Apple confidence poll, and we
encourage you to show your support for the Mac OS platform through this
online survey. The poll is posted on the web:
<http://www.tiac.net/users/ide/apple1.htm>
--> A Good Source for Used NeXT Hardware
Apple developers interested in gaining experience with NeXT's OpenStep
operating system may want to check out Spherical Solutions' web site for
good buys on used NeXT equipment. Spherical Solutions offers a full line
of Motorola-based NeXT systems, complete with user and developer
software. Their inventory can be viewed at this web site:
<http://www.orb.com>
--> BBEdit 4.0.3 Available
Version 4.0.3 of Bare Bones Software's popular and award-winning text
editor for Mac OS-based systems is now available. The new version
includes a variety of enhancements, including improved FTP support,
coding support, and HTML tools. Licensed owners of BBEdit 4.0, 4.0.1,
and 4.0.2 can download this update free of charge from Bare Bones
Software's web site:
<http://www.barebones.com/>
New orders can be placed through any of these sites:
<http://www.download.com>
<http://www.macuser.com/software/>
<http://www.maccentral.com/>
--> Webcast Feedback and Ideas Needed
Bob Levitus and Jeff Evans, authors of the CD Webmaster Macintosh, are
working on a brand new title, Webcaster Macintosh: How To Do Desktop
Broadcasting Without Really Trying. They're currently looking for
feedback on Apple's recent Grammy Awards webcast and for ideas on
optimal webcast connection speeds, configurations, software, and so on.
If you'd like to share your opinions on this topic, and possibly receive
a credit on their CD, send e-mail to Evans at <jevans@shokt.com>.
--> Pack Your Cocoa Butter for SPA's Cannes Conference, June 1 to 3
It's a tough job, but someone in your company ought to attend the
Software Publishers Association (SPA) Europe conference in Cannes,
France (a town known for its scenic beaches). If you register before
March 28, you can save up to US$ 300 on conference and hotel
registration fees. For information on sponsorship and exhibit
opportunities, see the SPA web site:
<http://www.spa-europe.org/Cannes/CANNES.HTM>
mac.2281madamov,
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 97 11:06:59 -0000
From: Guy Kawasaki <gkawasaki@macway.com>
Subject: Run this ad!
Message-ID: <199703031908.LAA23082@scv3.apple.com>
Keyword: Advocacy, Guerilla Tactics
Check out our new web page called Apple's Back at:
<http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/apple_ads.html>
You can download our radio advertising and the six-page ad that recently
ran in the Wall Street Journal and other publications.
If you publish a newletter or magazine, it would be great if you ran this
ad for The Cause. If/when you run it, we'd love to see your publication.
Please send a copy to:
Guy Kawasaki
Apple Computer, Inc.
One Infinite Loop
Mail Stop 303-4GK
Cupertino, CA 95014
Thanks!
Guy
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mac.2283madamov,
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 97 18:11:26 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: Rhapsody API for System 7?
Message-ID: <199703040215.SAA23186@scv3.apple.com>
This tidbit is from:
Rick Johnson, <rjohnson@execpc.com>
I came across this unusual perspective on developing for Rhapsody at
MacUser online:
"THE ACID TEST / Jeff Pittelkau--Rhapsody: A Developer's Perspective"
<http://www.zdnet.com:80/macuser/onlinecol/pittelkau.html>
Some highlights:
"Rhapsody sounds like a great idea, but who will really use it if there
are no apps? And who will write apps for an OS that no one uses?"
"When it comes to operating systems, Microsoft understands what both
developers and customers need, even if customers and developers don't
always understand what they themselves want.... In the Wintel world,
there's only one API, and it's the foundation for both Windows NT and
Windows 95 application development."
"Well, imagine if Rhapsody's API were available under System 7? If this
were the case, developers could write Rhapsody applications that also ran
on System 7. Sure, when running on System 7, those apps wouldn't have all
the modern OS features offered in Rhapsody, but they'd still run. And
Apple's System 7 customers would then be faced with the same proposition
as Windows 95 customers: Want stability? Upgrade to our new, modern OS."
______________________
Digital Guy Sez:
Jeff's not comparing like situations here -- he seems to think of Win95
as MicroSoft's "7.x", and NT as MS's "Rhapsody". If we ignore the fact
that both solutions are kludgy rip-offs of the Mac, a better comparison
would be Windows 3.1 and the Win32 API set. Unless I'm mistaken, you can
NOT run Win32 based apps on Windows 3.1. Also, he seems to have
forgotten that the OpenStep API radically reduces the work a developer
has to do for cross-platform development. I'm sure our capable
EvangeListas will come up with a better analysis of his article. Be nice,
this is one of ours! :)
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mac.2282madamov,
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 97 14:35:10 -0000
From: Guy Kawasaki <gkawasaki@macway.com>
Subject: MacOS 7.6 Upgrade Sales
Message-ID: <199703032236.OAA01726@dnai.com>
This is a report about our sales of MacOS 7.6.
Thanks,
Guy
Mac OS 7.6 started shipping in January 1997, and according to key
retailers, it's flying out of stores. One superstore says it's their
third hottest product, with a sell-through rate behind only Windows
Office 97 & TurboTax. Although Mac OS 7.6 has only been available to
retailers for one month, its sales volumes have already exceeded
expectations. Consider these experiences:
* With only one month on the shelves, virtually every major retailer has
already reordered stock, having sold through their initial three-month
supplies.
* Several Windows-centric retailers have signed up to carry Mac OS 7.6
and give it prominent shelf-space and "end-cap" displays, having reported
that they were losing sales to other retailers.
* One superstore dismantled its Windows NT display to give Mac OS 7.6
prominent floor space, front and center in the store.
* Among the fiercely competitive Manhattan retailers, one store wants to
devote their Fifth Avenue window front display to Mac OS 7.6.
* Another superstore is staking its claim for upgrade customers by
featuring Mac OS 7.6 in its television ads.
* Since the Mac OS 7.6 announcement at Macworld, the phones have lit up
and haven't stopped ringing at the Apple Software Order Center. Daily
call volumes have increased dramatically and haven't peaked yet,
including an astounding rate of calls over the normally slow weekend
hours.
The strong customer demand has been a pleasant surprise, especially given
that Tempo, an even bigger release of the Mac OS, is due out this summer.
Stay tuned, as momentum builds to make 1997 a big year for the Mac OS.
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mac.2284madamov,
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 97 14:41:58 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Mac Sales UP!
Message-ID: <199703052241.OAA17860@scv3.apple.com>
This tidbit is from:
Charles Bouldin, <bouldin@email.nist.gov>
"The study by Computer Intelligence said Macintosh computers made by
either Apple or licensed clone-makers constituted 11.2 percent of the
business-oriented personal-computer market in January, the paper said.
The report said the figure is up from 9.5 percent in December and 7.8
percent in November."
Sounds like a pretty good rebound to me!
Source:
<http://biz.yahoo.com/bin/jump?/finance/97/03/05/aapl_1.html+aapl+97+03>
_______________________
Digital Guy Sez:
The only annoying thing about this report is that the neglect to mention
that we took a bite out of PC Clone sales (1% and rising!). That, and
the implication that the entire gain was at Apple's expense. At least
they had to DIG for that "However...". :)
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mac.2285madamov,
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 97 15:02:21 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: :-) - A Freudian Slip?
Message-ID: <199703052300.PAA11784@scv1.apple.com>
This tidbit is from:
Al Hulaton, <ahulaton@lava.net>
No wonder macs are the best selling computer in Japan:
"If you don't know where you want to go, we'll make sure you get taken."
Microsoft ad slogan, translated into Japanese.
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mac.2287madamov,
Sunnyvale, CA, Marc h6, 1997 -Sonic Systems today announced the
availability of the first Ethernet card for the CommSlot II expansion
bus. Sonic's Ether CS II Card provides all Macintosh and Macintosh clones
equipped with a CommSlot II with an economical, high performance Ethernet
connection.
The CommSlot II, which is based on the PCI bus, is now part of most
current entry level CPUs manufactured by Apple, such as the 4400, 5400,
and 6400 series, as well as Macintosh clones, such as the SuperMac C500
and C600. This allows users to install high performance, cost-effective
network expansion cards without using the PCI slots, which are intended
primarily for video display cards, DOS compatible cards, accelerators and
multimedia enhancements.
Sonic's Ether CS II TwP (Twisted-Pair) Card provides outstanding network
performance and reliability through its 10Base-T port, features a 32-bit
data interface for maximum throughput and comes with LocalBridge, Sonic's
highly regarded LocalTalk to Ethernet bridge software. Sonic's Ether CS
II TwP has a suggested retail price of $99.
"Many of today's low and mid-range Macs and Mac clones have a CommSlot
II, a limited number of PCI slots and no built-in Ethernet," said
Sudhakar Ravi, Sonic's Vice President of Engineering. Mr. Ravi continued,
"Sonic's CommSlot II cards are an extremely cost effective, high
performance means to upgrade these machines to Ethernet while keeping the
PCI slots open for other system enhancements."
For more information on Sonic Systems or its line of Macintosh networking
products, please call (408) 736-1900, fax at (408) 736-7228, E-mail to
<sales@sonicsys.com> or visit Sonic's Web page at
<http://www.sonicsys.com>.
mac.2286madamov,
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 09:50:51 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>,
Subject: Followup - Windows API's and Rhapsody Comparision
Message-ID: <199703061754.JAA05196@scv3.apple.com>
This Clarification Posted by:
The Digital Guy <evangelist@apple.com>
Well, I asked for it. I said:
"Unless I'm mistaken, you can NOT run Win32 based apps on Windows 3.1."
I'm just glad I prefaced that remark first, as it turns out that I was
only partly right. A lot of you said "The Win32 API allows you run
applications written to Win95 and NT under 3.1" (whew, say THAT three
times fast! :) and I was prepared to float a "Mea Culpa" to the list,
when I got the REST of the story. Here's a quote from one EvangeLista:
"Actually, you can (or could) provided:
* the Win32 app used only the so-called Win32s subset of Win32 APIs, and
* you had the Win32s subsystem installed on the Windows 3.1 target.
I don't think Microsoft supports Win32s anymore -- the subsystem was too
unstable, and Microsoft stopped developing Win16 software quite a while
ago. I also suspect Chicago (Windows 95) finally usurped most of whatever
market Win32s had."
-- Bobby Schmidt
Contributing Editor, "C/C++ Users Journal"
Then there were several who said that the Win32 API was actually *three*
different API's (which seems kind of contrary to the point of having the
API available in the first place), making it hit and miss as to what
applications would run under which Windows OS.
As I said to one respondant, MicroSoft once again seems to have gotten a
lot of mileage out of the *appearance* of doing something cool, with the
actual implementation falling somewhat short of the hype.
Ultimately, I think Jeff's idea is actually pretty cool. But I think we
all want to see Apple stay focussed, stick to the plan, and avoid getting
distracted by anything that keeps us from shipping Rhapsody on time and
solid as a rock. Thanks to all the EvangeListas that wrote, btw...you
guys are amazing! :)
Kick butt!
John J. Halbig
(a.k.a the Digital Guy)
e-mail: evangelist@apple.com
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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 13:23:16 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - PC Laptop Magazine Gives 3400 Thumbs Up
Message-ID: <199703062126.NAA19270@scv2.apple.com>
this tidbit is from:
<superkais@macconnect> (Geoff Kaiser)
Check out the March issue of PC Laptop magazine. In the midst of all the
Windoze laptop reviews, there's a very favorable review of the PowerBook
3400c/200 from Editor-in-Chief Mark Kellner.
He says the PowerBook 3400 is perfect for presentations, praises the
built-in Ethernet port's ability to plug-and-play right into corporate
LANs, and even states "it could turn into a mini-CAD workstation, thanks
to the powerful processor and large-capacity hard drive."
He sums up with the following:
"If you are someone who depends on the Macintosh for daily business or
pleasure, who needs the power of a Mac, but in a portable package, the
3400 is a machine to consider, to buy and to enjoy. It's also one for the
Windows-based world to imitate in many respects--but then, longtime Mac
users will tell you the other side has done that before."
If you read the article and want to thank Mr. Keller for his favorable
Mac coverage, his eMail address is <mkellner@lfp.com>.
___________________________
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I went looking for an online resource for this article, and only found
the following:
<http://www2.pclaptop.com/pclaptop/march.html>
Which details the cover and contents of the current issue, and not much
else.
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mac.2289madamov,
-> #2272, kmilan> da li si probao da formatiraš disketu u pozadini na MagiCMac-u ;) ?
Ne treba mi, na diskete sam zaboravio, koristim ih samo kad moram. B)
mac.2290bobby.quyne,
Trebaju mi informacije u vezi Mac Performa 5320 pa ukoliko postoji isti
ili slican racunar neka se javi. Takodje je potreban software za fax i
telefon na tom racunaru i to "Apple fax" i "Apple tel" koji rade sa Apple
personal modem-om. Super bi bilo i ako neko ima full verziju Megaphone.
tel. 147-140, Darko posle 16 h
mac.2291sav.gacic,
-> #2251, kmilan> 2200DM u nemačkoj
> - 10% jer kupuje stranac (to je onaj marvešprice ili kako se već zove :)
> ili - 15% ako se prijavi na carini
> +10% od cene za prebacivanje preko grane
> UKUPNO - 2200DM za PowerMac4400/200
> BTW ovo mi je Đura rekao tako da ja samo prenosim :)
Jel' to onako, u principu, ili postoji uhodan kanal?
Iz tehničkih razloga ne mogu (mnogo) da putujem, pa su mi takve informacije od
koristi.
mac.2292askripka,
Evo da javim nešto što će zainteresovati ljubitelje Spectruma:
Skinuo sam Amstrad CPC6128 emulator. Postoje dve verzije. jedna za
68k, druga za PPC. Prvi utisci:
68k verzija je malo upotrebljiva, ali PPC radi kako treba... Ovo se
naravno odnosi na brzinu. Kako ja nemam PPC, danas sam odneo kod
ortaka da probam i mislim da je program sjajan! Mislim da ne može
da se poredi sa bilo kojim Spectrum emulatorom, dakle mnogo je
BOLJI. Zahteva PPC na barem 75 Mhz, što u današnje vreme nije
problem.
Zaključak: ako i dalje volite ManicMiner, WinterGames i sl., ovo je
za sada najbolje rešenje, pod uslovom da imate adekvatnu mašinu.
Sve sam rekao, osim kako se to čudo zove... :))
Ime mu je cpcpp (CPC plus plus :))) ). Na internet je okačeno u
februaru ove godine, dakle sveže... :))
Iako je shareware, neću da ga kačim sada jer ima užasnu manu :(((
Dok se ne registrujete, program sam 'Quit-uje' [:)))] posle par
minuta... :((( Ali ako ima neko raspoložen za registraciju, neka
viče pa ću poslati.
mac.2293askripka,
-> #2291, sav.gacic=- Jel' to onako, u principu, ili postoji uhodan kanal?
Ovo ti je dobro pitanje... Zanima i mene...
A ne bi bilo loše da dobijemo još neke cene ako je moguće?
mac.2294kmilan,
-> #2291, sav.gacicsav.gacic wrote to kmilan:
s> > 2200DM u nemačkoj
s> > - 10% jer kupuje stranac (to je onaj marvešprice ili kako se već zove :)
s> > ili - 15% ako se prijavi na carini
s> > +10% od cene za prebacivanje preko grane
s> > UKUPNO - 2200DM za PowerMac4400/200
s> > BTW ovo mi je Đura rekao tako da ja samo prenosim :)
s>
s> Jel' to onako, u principu, ili postoji uhodan kanal?
s>
s> Iz tehničkih razloga ne mogu (mnogo) da putujem, pa su mi takve informacije
od
s> koristi.
Evo ovako:
zvao sam Đuru i dao mi je cene iz decembra 1996.
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Za prenos preko granice (mađarska/yu) treba uposliti čoveka čiji broj
telefona još nemem ali se nadam da ću uskoro uhvatiti mipe-a da mi ga
da pa ću javiti.
Inače cena prenosa je 20% od cene robe - garantuje da će 100% preneti.
ili 10% ne garantuje 100%.
mac.2295askripka,
-> #2294, kmilan=- 4400/160 L2 256, 16, 1.2, 8x, keybord - 2369DM - including
merverstouse (ili kako se već piše :)
Ne bih nikome preporučio ovakvog Mac-a... Čini mi se da ima rupa na
sve strane... Prvo, takt procesora je ipak prenizak, pogotovo s
obzirom šta će sve biti na tržištu jako jako skoro... Drugo,
interni hard je ipak IDE... Treće, koliko sam ja upoznat je da je
lako moguće da ni CD nije SCSI... Previše nepoverenja na prvi
pogled...
Ono što danas model mora da sadrži je naravno i interni SCSI bus,
Procesor na kartici... Dakle, minimum je 7600... Bolje sačekati da
to spadne na ovu cenu (a to će biti veoma brzo) nego kupovati jednu
mašinu za koju će biti (vrlo brzo) potrebno još dosta novca da se
'dovede u red'.
Voleo bih da pročitam još neko mišljenje.
mac.2296kmilan,
-> #2295, askripka>=- 4400/160 L2 256, 16, 1.2, 8x, keybord - 2369DM - including
>merverstouse (ili kako se već piše :)
>Ne bih nikome preporučio ovakvog Mac-a... Čini mi se da ima rupa na
...
>Voleo bih da pročitam još neko mišljenje.
i cene i opise Mac klonova.
mac.2297madamov,
-> #2290, bobby.quyne> Trebaju mi informacije u vezi Mac Performa 5320 pa ukoliko postoji isti
> ili slican racunar neka se javi.
Računar postoji, ali ja ne znam nikog ko ga poseduje. Mada, viđao sam Peforme
iz te serije (računar i monitor u istom kućištu) u MiMacu.
> Takodje je potreban software za fax i telefon na tom racunaru i to "Apple
> fax" i "Apple tel" koji rade sa Apple personal modem-om.
Neka proba na istom mestu, tj. MiMacu, suviše je specifično da bi se lako
našlo kod pojedinaca. Što se softvera za modem tiče, što ne proba ZTerm?
mac.2299madamov,
-> #2296, kmilan> i cene i opise Mac klonova.
Opisi se mogu naći u GURU-u kojeg file moderator ostavi u direktoriju nedavno.
Što se cena tiče, besmisleno ih je u eri Interneta ostavljati ovde kad se tako
često menjaju.
mac.2298madamov,
-> #2295, askripka> Treće, koliko sam ja upoznat je da je lako moguće da ni CD nije SCSI...
Ne verujem, s obzirom na količinu izbačenih mašina sa IDE hardom koje imaju
SCSI CD-ROM ne isplati se za tako jeftinu mašinu razvijati tehnologiju u kojoj
bi se nalazio i IDE CD-ROM.
mac.2302madamov,
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 97 14:55:03 -0000
From: Guy Kawasaki <kawasaki@mail.apple.com>
Subject: Running Pentium Programs on a Macintosh--SoftWindows Article
Message-ID: <199703072254.OAA23320@scv1.apple.com>
Keyword: Market by market, Enterprise
Check out this story about Insignia's new release of SoftWindows. Here's
great quote:
"But perhaps the most important feature is the Pentium instruction set
because if you have a Pentium program that doesn't work on a 486, now you
can run that app on a Mac." Leigh Dworkin, product line manager for
SoftWindows.
<http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?97035.einsignia.htm>
------------------------------
mac.2301madamov,
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 97 12:37:12 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: When You Want to Write That Letter - ccApple
Message-ID: <199703072039.MAA07010@scv1.apple.com>
The following is from Apple Corporate Communications at
<ccapple@apple.com>
Dear Apple Enthusiast,
We know that from time to time you encounter media coverage of Apple
computer that prompts you to write an email to the editor of the
publication or program. These emails may show appreciation for fair or
accurate coverage about Apple, or, they may be in response to unfair or
inaccurate coverage.
As our customers, developers, resellers, and fans, you are our most
potent and faithful advocates. We are interested in what you have to say
in response to media coverage. For this reason, we encourage you to
"ccApple" on emails you write to editors in response to coverage about
Apple.
Simply copy Apple on the email at our "ccApple" address
<ccapple@apple.com>. Please be sure to include:
- The publication or program name to which you are sending the message
- The article title and date for messages concerning articles
- The program date and subject for messages concerning broadcast programs
- The URL to the original article (if you have it)
Some of our favorite letters will be highlighted on our new "Apple Meets
the Media" Web page <http://product.info.apple.com/pr/meetmedia/>. The
Apple Meets the Media Web page also features Apple's own responses to
press coverage.
Keep the Faith,
Apple Corporate Communications
PS - We strongly encourage you to be polite when responding to media
coverage about Apple. Make sure to back up any criticism with facts or
personal experiences. Show the press what we already know, Apple users
are among the most intelligent and eloquent around.
PS2 - If you send your commentary to Apple you thereby grant permission
to Apple and give Apple the right to post your commentary, or excerpts
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mac.2300madamov,
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 00:01:40 -0500 (EST)
From: MacWay@aol.com
Subject: Macintosh Rules in Canada!
Message-ID: <970307000139_-1808021689@emout03.mail.aol.com>
Keyword: Market by Market, Home, Keyword: Market by market, Education
According to the AC Nielsen's Computer Product Index (Dec. 96):
Apple was the number one vendor in Canada in PC sales (dollar sales) in
the Home Market in 1996 (as it was in 1995 ).
Apple was once again the number one PC vendor in Canada in the Education
Market (combined K-12 & Post Secondary) in 1996 in market share (both in
units and dollar sales).
Not bad, eh?
Guy (on a flight back from Toronto)
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mac.2303kmilan,
-> #2299, madamov>> i cene i opise Mac klonova.
>Opisi se mogu naći u GURU-u kojeg file moderator ostavi u direktoriju
>nedavno.
OK
>Što se cena tiče, besmisleno ih je u eri Interneta ostavljati ovde kad se
>tako često menjaju.
XM, ovaj... imam Atari i nemam PPP ;(
mac.2304madamov,
-> #2290, bobby.quyne> Trebaju mi informacije u vezi Mac Performa 5320 pa ukoliko postoji isti
> ili slican racunar neka se javi.
Računar postoji, ali ja ne znam nikog ko ga poseduje. Mada, viđao sam Peforme
iz te serije (računar i monitor u istom kućištu) u MiMacu.
> Takodje je potreban software za fax i telefon na tom racunaru i to "Apple
> fax" i "Apple tel" koji rade sa Apple personal modem-om.
Neka proba na istom mestu, tj. MiMacu, suviše je specifično da bi se lako
našlo kod pojedinaca. Što se softvera za modem tiče, što ne proba ZTerm?
mac.2306madamov,
-> #2296, kmilan> i cene i opise Mac klonova.
Opisi se mogu naći u GURU-u kojeg file moderator ostavi u direktoriju nedavno.
Što se cena tiče, besmisleno ih je u eri Interneta ostavljati ovde kad se tako
često menjaju.
mac.2305madamov,
-> #2295, askripka> Treće, koliko sam ja upoznat je da je lako moguće da ni CD nije SCSI...
Ne verujem, s obzirom na količinu izbačenih mašina sa IDE hardom koje imaju
SCSI CD-ROM ne isplati se za tako jeftinu mašinu razvijati tehnologiju u kojoj
bi se nalazio i IDE CD-ROM.
mac.2307haevorn,
spisak ftp sajtove gde se moze naci mac software.
posto je ovo skinuto sa ZD Net-a verovatno se
radi o shareware sajtovima...
mac-ftps.txtmac.2308nenad,
Velike promene u Apple-u, puno otpuštanja, kao i najava
prekidanja daljeg razvoja nekih tehnologija. Uz poruku je
zvanično Apple-ovo "uvijeno" saopštenje za štampu, a u ovoj
i sledećoj poruci viđenja nezavisnih analitičara, nešto više
informacija o proizvodima koji će uslediti i slično...
Apple reorganizes itself as a Next clone
Spread the news: Apple Computer has not acquired Next. Next,
for all intents and purposes, has acquired Apple.
As Apple formally unveiled its widely expected survival
strategy Friday, it leaned heavily on the products and
strategies developed at Next when it was a separate company.
Apple agreed to buy Next in late December, bringing Apple
co-founder Steve Jobs back into the Macintosh fold.
And while the Macintosh and the MacOS remain Apple's primary
products, many Apple-developed technologies -- considered core
just a month ago -- are now, with Friday's ax fallen, all but
gone:
- OpenDoc;
- AIX;
- QuickDraw GX; and
- Apple's videoconferencing technology.
OpenDoc and Cyberdog will no longer be upgraded and will ship
in MacOS 8 only, the number of future MacOS upgrades has been
reduced, and Apple will stop upgrading its development tools
for the MacOS. In addition, the future of CI Labs is uncertain.
Also gone from Apple are 2,700 full-time and approximately
1,400 contract employees. The company is cutting costs in an
effort to end a string of dismal financial quarters. As a
result of the workforce reduction, a $155 million restructuring
charge will be reported in the company's second fiscal quarter.
Rhapsody and Java are now in the driver's seat in Cupertino.
Apple will focus on developing Rhapsody, its NextStep-based OS,
with even more emphasis on Java -- including a Java API set
being developed by Next for NextStep and OpenStep.
"We are investigating how best to combine the text and graphics
features of GX with Display Postscript to build the imaging
model in Rhapsody," company officials said.
With regard to the MacOS, Apple altered the delivery schedule
for releases beyond MacOS 8. Instead of two full retail
releases of MacOS in 1998, Apple will ship one complete release
in mid-1998, code-named Allegro, and a full release yearly from
then on. Customers will get the latest system improvements
through two updates that will come between MacOS 8 and Allegro.
Although Apple won't drop out of any of the markets it is
currently in, the company will significantly cut the number of
consumer models it offers, with the Performa name going away
first, company executives said. Apple will announce a new line
of entry-level computers in April while phasing out the
Performa line.
Apple also indicated that although it would continue to market
the MessagePad line, it is considering either selling the
Newton division, or fully licensing the technology to third
parties. The Newton Systems group remains intact while
executives "explore" the other options.
More important in the long term, however, is the direction that
Apple intends to take with its technology, which now has a
decidedly Next bent.
Although the company did not address its plans for Windows NT,
in the future Apple executives expect the Microsoft operating
system to play a larger role in the company's future plans.
Such moves reflect not only the considerable influence wielded
by Jobs, dubbed a part-time consultant, but also Apple's dismal
track record in the 1990s of punctually delivering promised
products.
Most of Apple's major initiatives over the past seven years --
including the five-point alliance with IBM, Taligent, the
Copland and Gershwin OSes, clone licensing, and Newton -- have
either been scrapped before products hit the market or have
fallen far short of expectations.
That may explain why the red ink continues to flow at Apple.
The company is expected to post a loss of between $800 million
and $1 billion for its current quarter, which ends this month.
That will include write-offs for costs associated with the
layoffs, Apple's $400 million acquisition of Next, and an
estimated $100 million operating loss.
Apple, which in fiscal 1995 was just shy of $12 billion in
total revenues, wants to get its break-even point to occur at
less than $8 billion in annual turnover. The company said it
expects to return to profitability in the fall.
Friday's moves are designed to give Apple a solid business
model, said chairman and CEO Gil Amelio, by streamlining the
company's bureaucracy, more tightly integrating Apple's
marketing efforts, and focusing research and development on
Apple's core markets.
Analysts were not about to declare the patient well, however,
after Amelio's latest round of surgery.
"All the things they talked about in terms of cost-cutting are
needed, but there is no magic bullet here," said Gene Glazier,
an analyst with Dean Witter Reynolds, in New York. "The most
important thing they must do is turn the sales force around."
"I'm having trouble seeing how material this will be to them in
the long run," said Rob Enderle, senior analyst at Giga
Information Group, in Santa Clara, Calif. "The software side
seems to be coming together, but the hardware is still messed
up. OpenDoc was never going anywhere anyway, but they're still
going to have to support it forever."
"On the software side, it is a Next strategy. This was the plan
all along: To get rid of MacOS and use Rhapsody as a transition
product [to Next]," Enderle said. "The transition should take
about four years. Eventually I expect them to end up on Intel."
press.txtmac.2309nenad,
Apple's darkest day
Today thousands of employees of Apple Computer Inc. will
surrender their jobs, and the projects they championed will be
pushed out like a burning barge cut loose to protect the mother
ship.
That alone makes March 14, 1997, Apple's darkest day. Not so much
in numbers--some 4,000 of Apple's best and brightest have already
been ablated over the last year in wrenching reorganizations that
never took hold.
But dark in another: The Apple that caught the imagination of
much of the world in the 1980s, the Apple that PC companies
copied in the 1990s, that company goes away today.
Make no mistake. Today's announcement regarding Apple's massive
restructuring isn't about reclaiming the Cupertino, Calif.,
company's past glory, as CEO Gilbert Amelio might have it. The
truth of the matter is that this is Apple's last stand.
If Amelio's desperate downsizing plan doesn't work--and judging
by history, there is no real reason for optimism--Apple will be
left too small, too peripheral, to make a difference. And an
Apple that can't make a difference is not worth contemplating.
When he took over the company a year ago, Amelio wasn't so much
appointed as anointed CEO, following the dark years under Michael
Spindler. After all, Amelio had revitalized moribund National
Semiconductor Corp. And as an Apple director, he correctly
identified the company's main weaknesses as uncompetitive
pricing, waning developer support and declining product quality.
Those contributed to Apple's market share falling from about 15
percent in 1992 to about 6 percent today. The company lost $867
million over the last year.
But Amelio did not identify an equally large difficulty: the
company culture. Apple has always empowered managers to do great
things--the cult of the individual is no stronger in any other
American company. In the 1980s, such empowerment freed Jef Raskin
to create the predecessor to the Macintosh. Strong individual
contributions produced such groundbreaking technologies as the
laser printer, AppleTalk networking technology and QuickTime
multimedia software.
But the same empowered individuals could also kill or delay the
company's best efforts. Plans to license the Macintosh operating
system, seen in retrospect as a strategy that could have powered
Apple forward, were debated until they lived no more. Meanwhile,
delivery of Copland, the successor to the Mac OS, was delayed for
years, until Apple was forced to all but kill the project and buy
Steve Jobs' NeXT Inc. as a just-in-time replacement.
So when Amelio outlined out his rebuilding plan last July 22, the
troops saluted--then continued to march in their own directions.
His frustration built to the point where he chastised employees,
in a recent companywide broadcast, "Don't put me in this position
again, dammit."
Today is Amelio's last chance to get everyone on the same page.
By having the company focus on what it does best, in areas such
as electronic publishing, Apple could in theory once again rev
its cash engine, persuade developers to write great applications
for the Macintosh and restore public confidence.
In theory. But Apple appears to be the Incredible Shrinking Star,
the nova that has now expended all its energy and is collapsing
upon itself like a black hole, where no light escapes.
Can Amelio refire the Apple drive and spirit? We start finding
out today.
mac.2310madamov,
Amelio Presents Apple's Internet Strategy
Apple's chairman and chief executive officer, Gil Amelio, presented
Apple's Internet and intranet strategy at the InternetWorld trade show
this week. According to Amelio, Apple is extending its expertise in the
publishing arena to take full advantage of the Internet and intranets as
new media for publishing. Amelio outlined five key points of the
strategy:
* Apple is extending its expertise in publishing to the
Internet/intranet.
* Macintosh is the platform of choice for Internet/intranet publishing.
* Apple, together with the third-party Macintosh Internet developer
community, offers the most powerful platform for publishing on the
Internet.
* Apple's technology developments support the Internet/intranet
publishing initiative.
* Apple and the Macintosh Internet developer community offer a rich
suite of Internet/intranet publishing solutions.
To review the two press releases on this topic, see these web sites:
<http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q2/970312.pr.rel.k
eynote.html>
<http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q2/970312.pr.rel.4
points.html>
mac.2311madamov,
Apple and Adobe Announce Solution for Web-Based Publishing
Apple and Adobe Systems just announced that they are working together to
provide integration between Adobe Acrobat 3.0 software and Apple's
WebObjects 3.1 (originally a NeXT creation), offering customers the
ability to generate highly formatted, print-ready output from web-based
enterprise applications. The integration of the two products will enable
customers to connect corporate applications to web servers and provide
high-quality output in Portable Document Format (PDF), the file format
created by Acrobat software that preserves document fidelity across
computer platforms and printers.
For details, see the full press release on the web:
<http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q2/970312.pr.rel.a
dobe.html>
mac.2313madamov,
Free Mac OS Video on Rhapsody
Apple is offering several free informational videos on future
technologies, including the video Apple's Operating System Strategy,
which features AppleSoft Vice President Jim Gable discussing the
upcoming Mac OS 8.0 ("Tempo") and Rhapsody releases. This tape also
includes video clips of Steve Jobs demonstrating OPENSTEP at MACWORLD
Expo '97 in San Francisco. For these and other free Macintosh Advantage
materials, visit this web site:
<http://azure.apple.com/whymac/order/usorder.html>
mac.2312madamov,
Apple Defines a Product Road Map for WebObjects
At InternetWorld, Apple also presented a 1997 road map for WebObjects,
the award-winning web development platform from recently acquired NeXT
Software. The road map is a commitment to NeXT customers and Apple
developers for continued product development and enhancements, including
support for the new Apple operating system, code-named Rhapsody.
WebObjects is the market-leading platform that allows developers to
rapidly create dynamic web applications. Apple's road map outlines plans
for the next three releases of WebObjects. For the details of this
product road map, see the full press release at this web site:
<http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q2/970312.pr.rel.w
ebobjects.html>
mac.2314madamov,
---------------------------------------
NEW SOFTWARE RELEASES
---------------------------------------
--> CFM-68K Runtime Enabler, Version 4.0
Version 4.0 of the CFM-68K Runtime Enabler corrects all known problems
with previous versions and allows applications that require the Code
Fragment Manager--such as LaserWriter 8.4, Cyberdog, America Online 3.0,
and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0--to run on 680x0-based machines. You
can download the U.S. version of this software at this site:
<ftp://ftp.apple.com/Apple.Support.Area/Apple.Software.Updates/US/Macint
osh/System/CFM-68K/>
--> Castanet Tuner for Mac Java, Alpha 6 Version
An alpha version of Marimba's Castanet Tuner is now available for the
Mac OS. To use it, you'll need Internet Config and Mac OS Runtime for
Java (MRJ).
You can download the Castanet alpha 6 version at these sites:
<ftp://ftp.marimba.com/pub/release/mac/tuner.hqx>
<http://www.marimba.com/tunein/>
To download Mac OS Runtime for Java, visit this web site:
<http://www.applejava.apple.com/text/download.html>
Finally, you can obtain Internet Config from this site:
<ftp://ftp.marimba.com/pub/release/unsupported/inetconfig1_3.sit.hqx>
For background information on this new technology, check out Gregg
Williams's article in the March 1997 issue of Apple Directions, "Apple's
Java Strategy Moves Forward." In this article, Williams lays out Apple's
Java-related plans for 1997 and describes how Marimba's Castanet
technology will enrich the Java experience on the Mac OS platform. To
read the complete article, see this Developer World web site:
<http://devworld.apple.com/mkt/informed/appledirections/mar97/stratmosai
c.html>
--> AppleShare IP 5.0, Beta 3 Version
AppleShare IP 5.0 combines traditional file sharing using TCP/IP and
AppleTalk with File Transfer Protocol (FTP) capabilities, a POP3/SMTP
mail server, an HTTP web server, and an AppleTalk print server--
providing users with a one-stop productivity solution for shared
information and resources. The AppleShare IP 5.0 beta version provides
developers with an expanded set of network services, including
traditional file sharing, FTP, mail, print, and web services. This
release includes many AppleShare IP reliability and performance
improvements, and it introduces support for Apple's print server. This
free release is unsupported at this time, but Apple will review
developer feedback through an AppleShare IP discussion group, which you
can join at this web site:
<http://appleshareip.apple.com/appleshareip/index.html>
To download the new AppleShare IP beta version, visit this site:
<http://appleshareip.apple.com/appleshareip/text/download.html>
You can read the official Apple press release on this software on the
web:
<http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q2/970312.pr.rel.a
ppleshare.html>
--> Apple MAE, Update 3
Apple has posted Update 3 for the Macintosh Application Environment
(MAE). MAE is open systems software that enables UNIX workstation users
to easily run unmodified 680x0-based Macintosh productivity
applications. This update, which includes enhancements made as a result
of Apple's internal testing, is for existing MAE 3.0 installations only.
You can download this software at the following site:
<http://www.mae.apple.com/info/update33.html>
--> Apple Disk Copy, Version 6.1
This is the latest version of Disk Copy, a utility that lets you mount
disk images on your desktop, make exact copies of floppy disks from a
disk image, convert disk images from one format to another, and create a
disk image from a mounted volume or folder. With DiskScripts and
AppleScript, you can use Disk Copy to automate software installations
and disk image manipulation. You can download this new release at the
following site:
<ftp://ftp2.info.apple.com/Apple.Support.Area/Apple.Software.Updates/US/
Macintosh/Utilities/Disk_Copy_6.1.sea.hqx>
--> MkLinux, Developer Release 2.1
Apple is supporting a project of the Open Software Foundation Research
Institute (OSF-RI) to port Linux, a freely distributed version of UNIX,
to a variety of Power Macintosh platforms. MkLinux (Microkernel Linux
for the Power Macintosh) operates on the OSF RI Mach 3 (Mk) microkernel,
running in native mode on the PowerPC microprocessor. This new release
of MkLinux support more Power Macintosh models, including Power
Macintosh 6100, 7100, 8100, 7200, 7500, 8500, and 9500 computers. You
can download the 2.1 release at this site:
<http://www.mklinux.apple.com>
In addition, Prime Time Freeware is working with Apple to make the
MkLinux releases available on CD. You can purchase MkLinux Developer
Release 2.1 on CD for $20. In addition, you can purchase the MkLinux
Reference Release, which includes the MkLinux DR 2.1 CD, a second
reference CD-ROM packed with documentation and reference materials, and
a 360-page book, for $50. For details, see the Prime Time Freeware site:
<http://www.ptf.com/>
mac.2315madamov,
WEB-BYTES--Pointers to More News and Software
--> MacTech Magazine Is Localized for Japan
Xplain Corporation, the publisher of MacTech Magazine, has just teamed
up with the Japanese publisher ASCII Corporation to launch MacTech
Japan, a Mac OS development magazine localized for Japanese developers.
Starting as a bimonthly publication, MacTech Japan will not only include
translated articles from the U.S. MacTech Magazine, but it will also
include information direct from Apple Japan and the Japanese developer
community. In its first issue, MacTech Japan will include a full-color
Developer Depot catalog.
The first issue is slated to go on sale in Japan in early April 1997.
Subscription information will be available in late March on the MacTech
web site at:
<http://www.mactech.com>
--> Hebrew Web Site for Mac Fans
Take note, Hebrew-speaking developers: There is now a Mac OS web site
that speaks your language. (And you don't need a Hebrew version of the
Mac OS to access it!) The site is located at this address:
<http://www.mor.co.il:80/mac/>
--> Mac Marines Are Looking for a Few Good Men and Women
The Mac Marines is an international corps of Macintosh loyalists who aim
to provide information, statistics, and reasons to help keep Mac OS
computers in schools and corporations everywhere. The Mac Marines are
looking for Macintosh lovers to help in the cause. You can enlist in the
Mac Marines at this site:
<http://www.macmarines.com/>
--> Classified Ads for Mac Memorabilia
MacintoshOS.com has developed the Classified Connection, a free forum
developed for the use of Macintosh users worldwide. Backed by robust
back-end programming and a well-designed interface, the Classified
Connection is a fully automated system designed to help Macintosh
fanatics locate hard-to-find hardware and Macintosh memorabilia. Check
it out at this address:
<http://www.MacintoshOS.com>
--> New Metrowerks Tools for Motorola PowerPC Embedded Chips
Metrowerks just announced CodeWarrior for PowerPC Embedded Systems, an
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that supports Motorola's MPC
8xx PowerPC family of embedded processors. You can read the complete
press release at the Metrowerks web site:
<http://www.metrowerks.com>
mac.2316madamov,
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 97 16:26:32 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: PR - VICOM Internet Gateway to be Bundled With AppleShare IP 5.0
Message-ID: <199703130024.QAA10036@scv1.apple.com>
This announcement is from:
Neil Kent, <neil.kent@vicomtech.com>
Vicom Technology, the Macintosh communications and connectivity software
specialists, announced today that Apple Computer, Inc will bundle the
VICOM Internet Gateway with AppleShare IP 5.0. VICOM Internet Gateway
allows networked users simultaneous access to the Internet using only one
IP address and one connection device. The bundled version will support up
to 25 users and will be available through Apple's usual distribution
channels.
Brian Morris, President & CEO of Vicom Technology says: "The VICOM
Internet Gateway is unique in that it incorporates a software router with
proxy/masquerade functionality, a DHCP Server, a PPP Server and a
Firewall in one easy to use package. Currently, it is the only single
software product with all this functionality running on a popular/desktop
OS."
"These features make the VICOM Internet Gateway a fine complement to
AppleShare IP servers in the educational, small office and workgroup
environment," says John Hanay, AppleShare IP Product Manager for Apple
Computer, Inc. "The incorporation of features enabling an administrator
to centrally control what web sites can and can not be accessed by the
network users will be of particular interest to our educational
customers. They can stop students from acessing certain sites or restrict
students to only accessing certain sites, such as education sites. "
The VICOM Internet Gateway is PowerPC native and utilizes Open Transport
drivers. Its' DHCP server can support up to 1,024 clients. While the
Gateway software runs on any modern 68K or PowerPC MacOS computer, the
clients can be any combination of Macs, PCs or Unix workstations.
Ethernet, LocalTalk, and Token Ring networks are supported, and
connections to the Internet can be made by numerous methods including:
dial-up modem, dial-up ISDN, cable modem or leased line (T1).
The VICOM Internet Gateway supports all Internet client applications,
such as Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Eudora, and Fetch. It will
automatically dial and log on to the Internet when any networked user
launches an Internet application, such as a browser. It can also be set
to drop the line automatically after a user-determined period of
inactivity, thereby saving telephone charges.
VICOM Internet Gateway includes an auto-configuration tool that will
allow even the non-technical to set up and connect to the Internet. The
DHCP Server allows network users to connect without having to set
individual IP addresses.
A demonstration version of the new software is available for download at:
<http://www.vicomtech.com>.
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mac.2317madamov,
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 16:29:54 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Ubiquitous PowerBooks
Message-ID: <199703140027.QAA12614@scv1.apple.com>
This tidbit is from:
Trygve Isaacson, <trygve@bombaydigital.com>
In a PC Week article <http://www.pcweek.com/news/0310/12anote.html> about
copyright issues discussed at the Seventh Conference on Computers,
Freedom and Privacy -- really nothing about platforms in the article --
the author closes with this observation about what platform the attendees
seemed to favor:
"If any user trends can be predicted from attendance at the CFP
conference, [...] among others, Apple Computer Inc. has reason for
optimism. Among the roughly 300 attendees at the conference, Apple
PowerBooks are pretty much ubiquitous. There was nary an IBM-compatible
laptop to be seen at the conference's opening day Tuesday."
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mac.2318madamov,
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 16:30:41 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: Daymare - Office '97 on a Mac
Message-ID: <199703140028.QAA20022@scv1.apple.com>
Keyword: Advocacy, Windows Daymares, Why Macs are Better
This tidbit is from:
Holder, Randall (A.), <Randall.Holder.randallh@nt.com>
Last week I tested some interesting items with some interesting results.
I have two very powerful PC's (Pentium 166) at home as well as a
Macintosh 8500. I just purchased the new Office 97 for Windows 95 OS and
decided to install it on the PC's just to see what the differances were
between it and Office 95.
I installed it on tower one (this unit had the 16 bit operating system of
Win95) and I immediately got a data processing error. An attempt to
launch Word proved a disaster with my Matrox Millenium 4mg video card.
Seven differant errors showed up. I gave up in disgust.
Next I installed on the other tower (32 bit fat version) and it seemed to
work fine. I thought WOW finally a Microsoft product that actually works.
However my celebration was short lived when I tried to launch Word 97 it
gave me a incomprehensive error. Several tries later I still could not
load it. I gave up and went back to tower 1. Now MS Word 97 launched fine
this time but didn't have any menus at all. None visable and none
available. I have absolutely no what prompted me to do the following ,
but I decided to remove the parallel ZIP disk I had previously installed,
to see what would happen. Lo and behold, Word launched fine complete with
menus. The next launch of Word however gave a divide even overflow error
and corrupted my video drivers.
Since then I have visited a newsgroup established specifically on Office
97 and there are dozens of documented problems people installing and
using Office 97 are having.
A final desperate attempt to see Office 97 in its "native" form involved
installing it on my Mac 8500, using Softwindows 95. I not only installed
it successfully but it works like a charm. I tried everything I could to
make it bomb and no way it would. I experienced one problem with the
network but that's all folks. I am currently printing and using Word,
Excel and Powerpoint for Office 97 on my Mac. I don't use it on either of
the PC's because I am not sure what would happen when I print, or save,
or anything. All I know is that on the Mac it works perfectly.
Someone should tell Bill G. that the only way to get Office 97 to work
efficently is to install it on a Mac. Somehow I don't think he would find
that too hard to believe.
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mac.2319madamov,
Apple Computer Details Restructuring Plans
Company Paves Return Road to Leadership With Focus on Its Distinctive
Product Strengths
CUPERTINO, Calif.--March 14, 1997--Apple Computer, Inc. Chairman and CEO
Gilbert F. Amelio today detailed a restructuring plan that sharpens the
Company's focus on strengths that have been at the heart of its
success--exceptionally easy-to-use personal and mobile computers with
unique multimedia and Internet capabilities.
"The top priorities guiding our reorganization are the rapid delivery of
distinctive products for our loyal business, education, and home
customers, and the development of a robust next-generation operating
system to carry them into the future," Amelio said. "We can best achieve
these goals by streamlining our organization, simplifying our product
lines to deliver fewer but much stronger models, and stopping investments
in activities that are not central to these core businesses."
Apple began the reorganization last month with a new streamlined
organization that focuses research and development efforts on products
that are central to its key businesses, unifies Apple's multiple
marketing groups, aligns the Company's sales teams to its market
strengths, and fully integrates Apple's and NeXT's resources. This
simpler organization has two charters: first, to bring distinctive
products to market quickly and to market them aggressively to customers
in Apple's key markets, and second, to deliver the Company's
next-generation operating system, code-named Rhapsody, while continuing
to enhance the Mac OS.
The Company simultaneously accelerated moves to simplify its product line
and deliver fewer, but more competitive models, such as the recently
announced high-end Power Macintosh and Power Book 3400 computers and the
new entry-level products, scheduled to be announced in April.
The Company has also re-evaluated the funding of certain activities and
technologies that are not central to Apple's core business strategy, or
that can be better achieved through industry standards, or that represent
a strong business opportunity for developers.
The resulting restructuring includes the lay-off of approximately 2,700
Apple employees with notifications scheduled to begin later this month,
and an estimated $155 million increase to the Company's restructuring
reserves to be charged to the Company's second fiscal quarter earnings.
The majority of the total restructuring cost is attributable to the
workforce reduction, and the remainder to the cancellation of contracts
and leases and to asset writeoffs.
While re-evaluating the funding of certain activities and technologies,
the Company reiterated its commitment to deliver Rhapsody in 1998, and to
continue to enhance the Mac OS. Technologies that will be maintained as
part of the Mac OS but will receive reduced investments for future
upgrades include Open Doc component software technology, Cyberdog, Open
Transport, Game Sprockets, and Mac OS Development Tools. Some other
technologies that are not part of the Mac OS, such as the speech
technologies, will be maintained without further major upgrades planned.
Other activities and technologies that Apple will not continue to fund
include the Video Conferencing Solution and AIX Server Software. Apple is
also exploring a wide range of options for still other technologies and
activities, including discussions with prospective licensees and business
partners.
As part of its renewed focus, the Company also said that it is altering
the delivery schedule for Mac OS releases beyond Mac OS 8, scheduled for
introduction in July 1997. Instead of two full retail releases of Mac OS
in 1998, as previously announced, Apple plans to ship one complete
release in mid-1998 (Allegro), and a full release yearly from then on.
Between the full releases, the latest system improvements will be made
readily available through updates; Apple plans to ship two system updates
between Mac OS 8 and Allegro. The change makes more resources available
for work on the next-generation operating system and directly answers
customers' cost and logistics concerns for frequent major releases.
"With this restructuring, and the painful decisions that have come with
it, we are addressing the problem of resource fragmentation and the
resulting weakness," Amelio continued. "We will limit our focus and put
significant muscle behind targeted efforts in order to successfully
develop and market winning solutions that have made Macintosh customers
some of the most passionate and loyal in the industry. We fully intend to
keep that spirit alive."
Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh, Performa, Power Macintosh, and
PowerBook are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Additional
company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of
the individual companies and are respectfully acknowledged.
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TidBITS#370/17-Mar-97
=====================
Last week brought us "black Friday" as Apple announced employee
layoffs and another restructuring; this week, Adam looks at what
Apple's keeping, setting aside, and putting into maintenance mode.
We also bring you news on Java and Shockwave security problems and
a PowerPC update to QuicKeys, plus a detailed review of Digital
Chisel, an easy-to-use multimedia authoring and Web publishing
tool aimed at kids.
Topics:
MailBITS/17-Mar-97
Apple Computer '97: What's In, What's Out
Digital Chisel: An Elegant Eye-Opener
<http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-370.html>
<ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/issues/1997/TidBITS#370_17-Mar-97.etx>
Copyright 1997 TidBITS Electronic Publishing. All rights reserved.
Information: <info@tidbits.com> Comments: <editors@tidbits.com>
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tidbits.370mac.2323madamov,
A LETTER FROM DAVID KRATHWOHL, VICE PRESIDENT OF APPLE DEVELOPER
RELATIONS
Dear Colleagues:
As you may already know, Apple made an announcement today regarding its
restructuring plans. While the full details are available in the press
release, I wanted to make sure that you were aware of the changes and
how they will impact Developer Relations.
Earlier this year, Gil Amelio promised to simplify Apple's product lines
and to resolve some of Apple's fragmentation issues. As part of the
restructuring, Apple's once-scattered marketing organizations have been
united into a single organization under the leadership of Guerrino De
Luca. Developer Relations, as a part of this organization, will
participate in efforts to make Apple successful and to help developers
be even more successful. We realize that the single most important way
we can help developers is to dramatically increase the number of
satisfied Macintosh customers who will purchase your software and
hardware products. We're working hard to make that happen!
To simplify our product lines, we are evaluating the products, projects
and technologies that are under development. This is a response to both
fiscal challenges and to developers' requests that we narrow our
technology focus and support more industry standards. While some of the
simplification will take place in unannounced projects, we will also cut
back in some previously announced areas. The press release has more
details on these plans, and it is my sincere hope that for most of you,
this will be a welcome change.
Like many other departments at Apple, Developer Relations will also have
resource reductions. In order to improve efficiency, some of ADR's
previous responsibilities, such as advertising and platform marketing,
will be integrated into the new marketing organization. Most of the
information and services we deliver will remain the same but will be
more efficiently produced and delivered by a centralized team. This past
year, Apple has turned its Developer Relations organization into a world
class service provider and the lessons we have learned from you will
remain a priority.
Evangelism will continue to be a focal point of Developer Relations.
While some areas of evangelism will be cut back, our overall focus on
evangelism will be increased. Technology evangelism will be driven
specifically by the Mac OS and Rhapsody, with particular focus on
industry standards such as Sun's Java language and Apple's QuickTime
Media Layer.
Apple's No. 1 priority is to regain profitability and sell high quality
Macintosh products to our customers. Under the new marketing structure,
Developer Relations will be better able to concentrate on nurturing
relationships and evangelizing fewer core technologies, while making it
simpler for you to support our platform and qualify your products. We
realize that our success depends on your support and success, and we
look forward to working together!
Sincerely,
David Krathwohl
Vice President, Apple Developer Relations
---------------------------------------------------
The press releases referred to by David Krathwohl can be found on the
World Wide Web at the following addresses:
<http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q2/970314.pr.rel.r
estructure.html>
<http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q2/970312.pr.rel.f
aq.html>
mac.2324madamov,
APPLE DISCUSSES Q2 REVENUE OUTLOOK
In a conference call with financial analysts today, executive vice
president and chief financial officer Fred Anderson indicated that Apple
expects revenues for its second fiscal quarter ending March 28, 1997 to
be between U.S.$ 1.6 and 1.7 billion dollars.
"As we've previously discussed," said Anderson "we exited the first
quarter with surplus channel inventory. We've been extremely pleased
with the results of channel sell through of that inventory this quarter,
particularly in the Americas. However, this surplus channel sell-off has
been off-set by reduced sell-in during the quarter to restore a more
normalized channel inventory level. This phenomenon coupled with the
traditional seasonal softness of demand in our second quarter suggests
that we will generate lower revenues significantly than those we
achieved in our first fiscal quarter," Anderson stated.
Apple expects to release the results of its second fiscal quarter in
mid-April.
A copy of the press release is available on the World Wide Web at:
<http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q2/970314.pr.rel.q
2outlook.html>
mac.2326madamov,
Microsoft's Personal Web Server for the MacOS to Support High-Performance
WebSTAR Plug-ins
LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 12, 1996 -- at Internet World -- StarNine, the
MacOS subsidiary of Quarterdeck Corporation, today announced that the
Microsoft (R) Personal Web Server (PWS) for the Macintosh will support
StarNine's WebSTAR Application Programming Interface (W*API), allowing
users to take advantage of a wide range of existing Plug-ins. The W*API
was developed by StarNine Technologies and is supported in WebSTAR, the
leading Web server for the MacOS.
The W*API is used by developers to extend the functionality of a Web
server, and is more efficient than standard CGI (Common Gateway
Interface) applications. The W*API is designed with cross-platform
connectivity in mind, and over a hundred W*API Plug-ins from companies
such as Maxum Development, Everyware Development, ClearWay Technologies,
Blue World Communications, Web Broadcasting Corp. and Pacific Coast
Software are now shipping or in development. A full listing of W*API
Plug-ins is available on StarNine's Web site at:
<http://www.starnine.com/development/extendingwebstar.html>.
Developers can download the W*API Software Developer's Kit (SDK) online
at <ftp://ftp.starnine.com/pub/webstar_dev/>. Interested developers can
also subscribe to the WebSTAR-Dev email discussion list at
<http://www.starnine.com/address-list-editor.html>.
mac.2325madamov,
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 97 08:02:19 -0800
From: Guy Kawasaki <gkawasaki@macway.com>
Subject: Technology FAQ from Apple
Message-ID: <199703151602.IAA22544@dnai.com>
Apple Computer Restructuring: the Technology FAQs
Q. What are Apple's product priorities moving forward?
Much of the restructuring in software engineering is targeted to support
Mac OS and Rhapsody development plans. As before, Apple's goal is to
deliver market-leading, Internet-ready operating systems for its
customers and provide industry leadership in multimedia, human interface
design, ease- of-use, and plug and play. On the hardware side, Apple will
simplify its product line. This will allow us to deliver a much stronger
product portfolio that directly addresses Apple customer needs. This
process has already begun with recently announced high-performance Power
Macintosh systems, industry-leading PowerBook products, and the new
entry-level Macintosh products, scheduled to be introduced in April.
Apple has decided it will no longer invest in technology projects that
are not related to its core business, or that are better served by
adopting industry standards, or where third-party developers can provide
more compelling solutions.
Q. What's up with OpenDoc and Cyberdog?
A: We are moving more of our resources for component technology toward
Java-based technology, which is becoming the industry standard. OpenDoc
and Cyberdog will ship in Mac OS 8, but we are planning no major updates.
Apple will not port OpenDoc to the OPENSTEP APIs (sometime referred to as
the "Yellow Box") in Rhapsody, and this is a change from our earlier
announcements. The future of CI Labs is being worked out with the other
board members (IBM and Just Systems). Meanwhile, the source code for
OpenDoc remains available through CI Labs.
Q. What's up with Open Transport?
Apple is shifting its networking engineering development efforts to
Rhapsody. Open Transport will be maintained in Mac OS but will not be
ported to OPENSTEP in Rhapsody. OPENSTEP already supports a wide variety
of industry networking protocols through a standard "sockets" interface,
including TCP/IP and IPX. It should also be noted that the previously
announced upgrade to Open Transport (version1.5) has been canceled. Open
Transport will continue to operate in the Blue Box of Rhapsody.
Q. What's up with Games Sprockets?
Apple intends to maintain Game Sprockets API (applications program
interface) in Mac OS, meaning developers can still write to it. Existing
games using these interfaces should continue to work. No upgrades to this
API are planned and we do not plan to port it to the "Yellow Box" in
Rhapsody. It should be noted that applications that support Game
Sprockets in MacOS should run in the Mac OS compatibility area, or the
"Blue Box," in Rhapsody.
Q. What's up with AIX Servers?
Apple will concentrate on Rhapsody and Mac OS as our server operating
systems in the future. These host important solutions like AppleShare and
WebObjects. Apple continues to work on the next update of AIX
Software--version 4.1.5. After this version, no future upgrades are
planned. It should be noted that server hardware stays as part of the
Apple product line and will continue to be developed.
Q. What's up with QuickDraw GX?
As previously announced Apple is dropping the QuickDraw GX printing
architecture in favor of "classic" printing drivers in Mac OS. GX
developers can still use the advanced text and graphics capabilities of
GX through a shared library mechanism. We are investigating how best to
combine the text and graphics features of GX with Display Postscript to
build the imaging model in Rhapsody.
Q. What's up with video conferencing?
Apple will be discontinuing its video conferencing products and projects
after current commitments are met. video conferencing is an important
solution, and Apple will be investigating various third-party
opportunities for its video conferencing technology.
Q. Is Apple continuing to develop QTML technologies for the Windows
platform?
Yes. Apple continues to invest substantial amounts of engineering effort
to maintain and extend Apple leadership in cross-platform and
Internet-centric multimedia.
Q: What is the status of Mac OS Tools?
A: As developers would expect, Apple has decided to focus engineering
resources on developing a broad portfolio of tools for Rhapsody. Apple's
current Mac OS Tools are stable, reliable products. Additionally, the
market is well served by many excellent third-party products. As such, no
new versions of Mac OS development tools are planned from Apple.
Q. What about Newton?
New Newton products (MessagePad 2000, eMate 300) are now shipping, and
the products have been well-received. Apple is exploring a wide range of
options for future Newton business. We have no specifics regarding those
discussions at this time. The Newton Systems organization remains intact,
reporting to Jim Groff, senior vice president, as part of George
Scalise's group.
Q. What about Pippin?
Apple will continue to work with its current Pippin licensees, but will
not produce an Apple-labeled Pippin product.
Q. What's up with Apple's Imaging products?
Imaging remains absolutely an integral part of Apple's business and a
crucial component in the Company's unique "Plug and Play" solutions.
Q. If a technology is "maintained" in Mac OS, is that another way of
saying it's over?
No. Most of the elements of Mac OS today are maintained in this sense
today--yet customers and developers use them daily. Apple continues to
improve the reliability and performance of the overall system including
technologies that have not seen major updates in years. Furthermore,
these technologies will reside in Rhapsody as part of the Mac OS layer
(the "Blue Box") that will run today's software for years to come on a
faster, more reliable foundation.
Q. Is Apple discontinuing its Performa products? Are you abandoning the
consumer market?
Apple remains committed to the consumer market and plans to announce a
new line of entry-level products aimed at home, small business, and
education customers this spring. Apple does plan to phase out the
Performa brand name with the introduction of these new models, in favor
of the Power Macintosh brand. This is part of our overall product line
simplification and will end confusion for customers trying to decide
between Performa products and Power Macintosh models today, all of which
have PowerPC microprocessors.
Q. What's up with the release schedule for Mac OS?
As part of our reduction and simplification process, we are changing the
delivery schedule for future Mac OS releases. Instead of two full retail
releases of Mac OS in 1998 (Allegro and Sonata), Apple plans to ship one
complete release in 1998 (Allegro). It is targeted for mid-1998. To make
the latest system improvements readily available, we plan to ship two
system updates between Mac OS 8 (Tempo) and Allegro instead of one. The
schedule for Mac OS 8 remains unchanged with delivery anticipated in
summer 1997.
Meanwhile Apple plans to ship both the Premier and Unified releases of
Rhapsody in 1998, so the Company plans three major system releases next
year rather than two. While this does contribute to Apple's lower
financial expense goals, it is also a direct response to customer
feedback. Many companies and individuals have expressed concern over the
expense and logistics of upgrading their systems twice a year. With Mac
OS 8, Apple will have an excellent foundation for future Mac OS updates
and upgrades so the new schedule is more appropriate.
Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh, MessagePad, Newton, Performa, Pippin,
Power Macintosh, and PowerBook are registered trademarks of Apple
Computer, Inc. Additional company and product names may be trademarks or
registered trademarks of the individual companies and are respectfully
acknowledged.
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mac.2328madamov,
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 97 13:33:42 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Newsweek International Edition
Message-ID: <199703182133.NAA30828@scv3.apple.com>
This tidbit is from:
Charles L. Kaufman, <charleskaufman@compuserve.com>
In the March 17, 1997 issue of Newsweek (International- Europe edition),
their Special Advertising Section titled, `Computers & Communications`
has a small piece regarding Apple copmuter by journalist Steve Levy.
A quote: "It must be unimaginably frustrating to be an Apple executive
these days. The world is abuzz with Windows 95, whose flashiest features
were first conceived more than a decade ago by Apple hackers. When Apple
packaged its first Macintosh, offering a level of ease and use and
integration that Microsoft still hasn`t matched, corporate users
dismissed it as a toy. Now those same people are drooling at the prospect
of Mac`s innovations appearing in the new Microsoft system."
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 97 11:24:25 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - CD-R on A MAC
Message-ID: <199703181921.LAA21872@scv1.apple.com>
This tidbid is from:
<dan@mer.cioe.com>
A great article about CD-R on different platforms:
<http://www.hyperstand.com/NewMedia/95/09/td/cdr.html>
Choosing a Platform
If you are able to choose your CD-ROM mastering platform, we highly
recommend the Mac. First of all, the Mac is the only desirable place to
make true hybrid discs (see Going Cross-Platform ). Also, while we
completed our Mac software testing in short order with only rare phone
calls to the manufacturers, the Windows testing delayed this article by
three months and contributed to many sleepless nights.
We wasted many weeks and phone calls wrestling with conflicts between
different software and firmware revisions, and system configurations.
Nearly every day one bug or another brought our PC tests--and our three
PC configuration experts--to their collective knees. And invariably, by
the time we solved the problem, a new "improved" software or firmware
update would arrive, which would introduce even more variables. It wasn't
pretty.
You will only have to struggle with one installation (as opposed to the
10 for this review), and Windows 95 should make things somewhat better,
but the Mac remains the hands-down choice for ease of use and
compatibility.
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 97 13:33:57 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Apple Listens
Message-ID: <199703182133.NAA07904@scv3.apple.com>
This tidbit is from:
Dave Bursik, <dbursik@idt.net>
When Apple first posted Gil Amelio's address to the shareholders on its
web page, I stopped by to look it over. It was 10 pages long, however,
and I did not really feel like wading through it a page at a time.
I thought about printing it out to read later, but then I saw that the
speech had been segmented into 10 individual HTML documents and I'd have
to print each page separately.
Spotting the feedback link for the Leadership page, I dashed off an
e-mail note suggesting that it might be nice if Apple put PDF versions of
their speeches in the on-line archive so that the speeches could be
downloaded for off-line reading and/or printing.
I got back an automated "thank you" note and thought that was the last of
it. Imagine my pleasure when I went back a week or two later and saw that
there was a link to a PDF version of Amelio's speech!
Now, I can't claim sole credit for this as there were undoubtedly many
other people with the same idea, but the fact remains that I sent Apple's
corporate management a small idea and someone took it seriously enough to
act on it.
Can you imagine how this makes me feel about Apple? Do you think other
companies would respond like that?
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mac.2330askripka,
Pre neki dan poskidam ja malo starih igrica za MacSpectacle (imam
verz. 1.8.2) kad ono međutim...
Neke lepo rade, ali neke ne može da učita jer je u pitanju fajl u
verziji 3 (kako Spectacle meni to sam lepo ispiše), a neke rade
normalno...
Konkretno: Ima li neki utility kojim može da se izvrši konverzija u
'ono' što radi?
mac.2331madamov,
-> #2330, askripka> Konkretno: Ima li neki utility kojim može da se izvrši konverzija u
> 'ono' što radi?
Za utility ne znam, ali bi i mene zanimalo ako se nešto tako pronađe. Nego,
jel' taj format verzije 3 format nekog drugog emulatora ili novije verzije
MacSpecctaclea? Po Internetu nisam viđao novije verzije od ove koju si pomenuo?
P.S. Imaš li Manic Minera i Jet Set Willyija koji rade? B)
mac.2332askripka,
-> #2331, madamov=- Nego,jel' taj format verzije 3 format nekog drugog emulatora ili novije
verzije MacSpecctaclea? Po Internetu nisam viđao novije verzije od ove koju
si pomenuo?
O verziji 3 osim da ne radi ne znam ništa. Ne verujem da je u
pitanju novija verzija Spectaclea... Spectacle jednostavno (i
uredno) prijavi da je fajl u verziji 3 i da on taj format ne
podržava...
=- P.S. Imaš li Manic Minera i Jet Set Willyija koji rade? B)
Da i ne :))) Za spectrum emulator ne, ali za AmstradCPC emulator da.
O tom emulatoru sam nedavno i poslao poruku ovde...
Pročitaj je ponovo, ako je nisi zapamtio (što ti se već jednom
desilo... da nije od Corone? O:) :))) ).
Ako ti i pored opisanog u poruci odgovara, javi...
zx_games.sitmac.2333askripka,
-> #2331, madamovPosle prvog, ide i drugi reply...
Dakle, takav modelator... Strašno... Pa ne mogu da verujem...
Pa našao sam ti ono što tražiš na Internetu za manje od pola sata :)
Dakle... Sledi arhiva sa igricama koje sam poskidao na brzaka...
Tu su: Decathlon 1 i 2, onaj stari (i najbolji) Football Manager,
Winter Games 1 i 2, kao i...
naravno...
MANICMINER I JETSET WILLY !!!!!
Jel ovo vredi makar piće? ;)
mac.2334askripka,
Vezao majstor fajl uz pogrešnu poruku :))))
Ali oprostiće mi modelator, sigurno :))))
mac.2336ljubisha,
-> #2331, madamov> P.S. Imaš li Manic Minera i Jet Set Willyija koji rade? B)
Darko je pre neki dan provalio čari Spectrum emulatora i već je po-
čeo da dovlači igrice sa Interneta. Meni treba samo neki dobar disk edi-
tor za Mac pa da počnem da prebacujem moje igrice sa Atarija.
P.S. Moram da pronađem Operation Wolf? :)
mac.2337madamov,
-> #2332, askripka> Pročitaj je ponovo, ako je nisi zapamtio (što ti se već jednom
> desilo... da nije od Corone? O:) :))) ).
Pročitao i predlažem da ih pošalješ meni na mail kako bih ih prosledio file
moderatoru da ih prebaci u direktorijum.
mac.2338madamov,
-> #2333, askripka> Dakle, takav modelator...
Kaže se: modulator. B)
> Jel ovo vredi makar piće? ;)
Aha, eno imam six-pack Corone u frižideru. B)
mac.2339madamov,
-> #2336, ljubisha> Meni treba samo neki dobar disk editor za Mac pa da počnem da prebacujem
> moje igrice sa Atarija.
Šta fali Nortonovom Disk Editoru?
mac.2340madamov,
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 97 15:56:34 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Audio magazine - Ken Kessler article
Message-ID: <199703192356.PAA21530@scv3.apple.com>
This tidbit is from:
Jim Moy, <jbm@verinet.com>
The April issue of Audio magazine has a column by Contributing Editor Ken
Kessler (p.26), discussing connector standards in the hi-fi industry. He
starts his article like this:
"My abiding hatred for PCs, especially Windows 95 has resulted in a
long-overdue move to the Mac. And it wasn't just the utter instability,
the daily crashes, the software bugs, the crudity, or even Bill Gates's
smugness that drove me into the Apple orchard. Quite simply, a lifetime
of hi-fi's system compatibility spoiled me: I expect things to work. I
grew up with plug-and-play, long before Gates coopted the concept."
He then goes on with the meat of his subject, occasionally punctuating
with PC industry parallels. It was a pleasant surprise today!
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mac.2341madamov,
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 97 15:56:45 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Ellison Gets MicroSofted
Message-ID: <199703192356.PAA14424@scv3.apple.com>
This tidbit is from:
Al Hulaton, <ahulaton@lava.net>
If Microsoft and Intel view Apple as one big free r&d department.
So if the Empire is devoid of technical creativity, where do they get
their marketing ideas?
>From Larry Ellison, of course.
<http://www.pcweek.com/news/0317/19adodge.html>
A short quote:
"I thought about Microsoft's four stages of stealing a business," Ellison
said. "First, they say it's the dorkiest idea. A Microsoft executive
actually called me a dork [over the network computer]. Second, they
acknowledge there might be something there. Third, they say, 'Our network
computer is better than yours.' Fourth, they steal your marketing plan.
"Microsoft is the great follower. Look at the Macintosh and Windows,"
Ellison growled.
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 97 23:30:22 -0800
From: Guy Kawasaki <gkawasaki@macway.com>
Subject: Must Read!!!--Macs in Education, part 1
Message-ID: <199703200729.XAA17100@dnai.com>
Keyword: Market by market, Education
As my wife often tells me, "Think of the children." :-)
Guy
Adult Reasons Why Educators Should Continue to Embrace Macintosh
by Michael J. Johnson, Ph.D.
Over the last three years my two co-authors and I have evaluated all the
educational technology projects funded by an educational foundation in
the 14 Western states. After visiting scores of schools and universities,
corresponding with hundreds of teachers and administrators, and producing
two videos, we concluded that the battle over which platform, Macintosh
vs. DOS/Windows, was an adult issue.
Students easily adapt and move from one platform to another rather
seamlessly. Students do get very upset when the platform they are given
is incapable of doing some of the things they learn that another machine
can do or do with less effort. But for the most part, kids adapt. So it
is the adults who seem to have so much invested in the platform war.
The platform controversy often goes to extremes in school districts as
allegiances are strong and bias is at times an insurmountable obstacle as
it is in any holy war. People's emotional attachments to the platform
they learned on often make it nearly impossible to be objective. This
battle has left most educators, administrators, and board members at an
extreme disadvantage in that they do not have an educational technology
background and have had to rely on their technical computer support staff
and others for information and recommendations.
The recommendations and information they have gotten has often been
biased by the platform bias of their techies. In the past educators,
administrators, and boards may have been uncomfortable with this
situation, but left it up to the techies. That situation has changed! The
importance of the platform decision has become much more critical in the
last two years, however, as the world and school technology programs are
changing at breakneck speed.
The pervasiveness of the Internet as a new viable vehicle for commerce
and information is driving this technological revolution in education.
School districts will spend 5 billion dollars in the next year on
technology and higher education is spending even more. Everyone is
thinking about, and the vast majority of districts are, wiring their
buildings and installing networks. As the American Association of School
Administrator reports, school world wide web site home pages grew
exponentially from 134 to 2,850 in just 18 months, 1995 into 1996. The
importance and the amount of money being expended on school technology
are making board members and administrators very nervous about platform
decisions.
The national bad press that Apple has received has also increased
administrator and board member anxiety over the platform issue. Macintosh
is THE major multimedia platform in education today, according to the
latest report by Quality Educational Data. The bad press has prompted
some school administrators I know to ask themselves the question whether
they should purchase fewer Macintoshes. Board members and administrators
are also at a disadvantage in making that decision because they often
lack, or are not given, factual information upon which to base that
decision.
An Objective Analysis
Anyone reading an article that might favor one side or the other in the
platform holy war is immediately cautious of which side of the battle
line the author is writing from. I have done many platforms from CPM to
Macintosh to Unix to Windows. I have favored Macintosh in schools for
many practical reasons, but with all the furor over Apple's bad press, I
purposefully set out to objectively research the issue with an open mind,
willing to consider moving away from Macintosh, if the facts indicated
that the world had changed and that would be an appropriate decision. As
Deputy Superintendent for Instruction and Technology of a large suburban
school district that has been purchased $8 million dollars worth of
computers in the last four years -- I have to remain as objective as
possible in this fast changing world of technology. There is just too
much at stake to let previous bias cloud being able to see what is really
happening. Following is what I found in my personal research into the
platform issue in the last six months.
Networking and Networking Support
Installing networks in schools is growing at an exponential rate.
According to QED (1996) school district networks have grown 600% in the
last five years. The ease and cost of supporting a platform on local and
wide area networks should be a significant factor in deciding which
platform to purchase. Our district has an extensive intranet and Internet
network. We have installed thousands of Macs and PCs on our network in
the last two years. We have found a significant difference between Macs
and Windows machines. This difference is easily seen in the directions on
how to instal each platform. The Windows directions are 3 pages long,
single spaced, and only our district windows techies and a few building
level techies can do the Win-stall. The Ma directions are 1/2 page long,
including a picture, and we have trained all our librarians how to
install Macs on the network.
Although Windows95 has gotten significantly better, even our most devoted
DOS-heads still call it plug and pray. We have analyzed the time that it
takes our technical staff to install the Windows platform, especially on
multimedia windows machines. Installing a Ma on the network takes 10-15
minutes; Windows 3.1 45 minutes to an hour and Windows95 it takes 45 as
well, although a small percentage of Windows95 machines can be as short
as 20 minutes, as long as Windows95 will find and identify the correct
ethernet driver.
If there are any problems on a Windows install, building level techies,
simply can't handle it. Supporting the Ma platform on networks is
exponentially less expensive and perhaps more important, requires far
less district level support.
This lack of technical support, especially at the building level, has
been identified in Texas and nationally as the number one problem in
equational computing. Just buying technology has proven to be a major
challenge for most districts and getting enough technical support
positions seems completely off the horizon. The ease of installing and
maintaining a platform becomes a real concern when technical resources
are at such a premium. Computers can sit in closets or on desk tops as
dark screened Cassandras foretelling the death of the school's
educational technology program.
Cost of Supporting the Platform
In the fall of 1995 Gardner Group, the national computer consulting firm
that provides services to corporate America and larger educational
institutions, released an independent study that concluded that Macintosh
was at least 25% cheaper to support than the Windows platform. This data
matches our District's general experience with platform support,
especially with the advent of networking as such an important computer
function.
Ease of Use and How to Use it
Which is easier to use, Mac versus Windows, is another of those "nary the
sides shall meet" issues in schools. So perhaps the opinion of the CEO of
the company that makes the most popular computer processor for Windows
machines might be viewed as being a little less biased. Andrew Grove, CEO
of Intel in his 1996 book, Only the Paranoid Survive , says on page 58,
"Windows wasn't even as good as the Mac, let alone the NEXT interface,
and it wasn't seamlessly integrated with computers or applications." Our
experience with the Mac platform bears this out as the MacOS takes much
less time to learn and to start using effectively. Windows95 has made
improvements but it still has a good distance to go to match the MacOS.
We expend much less staff development resources to start a Mac platform
classroom and teacher.
Cost of Support: Replicating Business's Technology Model Won't Work in
Education
Another factor that parents in particular express at school PTO meetings
is, "Shouldn't we have the same computers in the classroom that are the
majority in business?" This is also especially enticing for school
administrators and board members who are much more in tune with business
and business management practices. But there are some key differences
between business and education, especially in regards to computing.
The first major difference is that studies show that business provides a
support ratio of one computer support person for every 35-60 users. In
our district the ratio is closer to one technical support person for
every 750 users. National studies and a recent study in Texas, list
computer support the most critical problem in educational computing at
the district and particularly at the building level. Given how difficult
it is to get money just for computers, hiring an army of techies to
support them will not fly with tax-payers and parents. Business' computer
support model would be nice for education, but it just won't happen.
The last, and perhaps most surprising reason that business computing is
not a model for education is that K-12 students are power users. Most
K-12 students use the computer as a true multimedia tool and their
technological expertise is very sophisticated, especially when compared
to most business users.
We Have Students Who Construct Their Own Internet Web Pages -- They Have
No Front Teeth and They Still Believe In the Easter Bunny!
The vast majority of business people do not use the full multimedia
capabilities of their computers. Elementary students in putting together
a multimedia report will record sound, scan pictures and draw graphics,
input a digital camera image, incorporate word processing, program an
animation, and even input a video segment into their multimedia report.
Few business users begin to be that sophisticated. Student computers have
to have more capability and power. Putting a standard business desk-top
in every classroom would seriously hamper most of our student computer
users.
to be continued
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mac.2343madamov,
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 97 23:30:24 -0800
From: Guy Kawasaki <gkawasaki@macway.com>
Subject: Must Read!!!--Macs in Education, part 2
Message-ID: <199703200730.XAA17108@dnai.com>
Keyword: Market by market, Education
What Computer Features Best Support and Enhance Learning: Multimedia
When the first computers hit classrooms in the late 1970s, we took the
new technology and used it in our current way of doing things -- we
created Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI), Electronic workbooks. We
have since learned that a workbook in paper form is only $10 dollars
while a computer costs, $2,000. Moreover, we have found that multimedia
enhances student learning in ways that are amazing that that we are just
beginning to understand.
Regardless of the affects of multimedia learning that we are just
starting to realize, the Internet has made it obvious that multimedia is
the present and future of computing. The install base of multimedia
machines in schools is now 1.9 million or 41% of the total. (QED, 1996)
We have learned that computers are tools for learning and discovery and
that information and knowledge and more than just the text and pictures
we have had in books. Information is digitized and can be text, pictures,
graphics, sound and video. Providing information in all these ways really
enhances learning for all students and especially for all those students
we know are very bright but have just not reached their potential in
school. In addition, once kids use multimedia, they want to use it all in
their learning. This generation of young people in our schools is
creating a "time-bomb of computer users" as Andrew Groves discusses in
Only The Paranoid Survive.
Which Multimedia Platform Delivers the Most Capacity at the Best Price?
The very thing that has caused Macintosh its biggest challenge is the
very thing that most benefits schools, a truly integrated system. Apple
kept its operating system and didn't allow others to use in machines made
by other manufacturers. DOS/Windows thus gained market share in the
business world because computers and parts became commodity items. You
could mix and match and build your own in the PC world. This permitted
endless variation. All PCs came with various slots that you could put
different card devices in and have the computer that best met your needs.
Every Mac, on the other hand, comes equipped as a full multimedia machine
with sound input/output and graphics features. All the components in Macs
were from the same design/manufacturer and therefore they all have been
designed to work together.
This endless variation on the DOS/Windows side, however, has lead to many
serious problems in different devices that were made by different
manufacturers and installed in different slots in the PC. I have seen
this problem cause havoc in many places, and in schools in particular,
where advanced technical support is lacking. One project between several
different school districts was delayed for over nine months because the
PCs they had would not function with both the CD-ROM drive and the
ethernet card installed.
Over the last year, even our district's most ardent Win-heads have been
enthusiastic about purchasing Macintoshes, as Macintosh delivered far
more RAM, hard-drive and full multimedia features than any Windows
manufacturer at a far cheaper price. Some of the Windows manufacturers,
such as Compaq are really starting to make headway in delivering
comparable capacity at more comparable prices, but the slot addressing
and driver problems continue to be a problem that is not going to go away
in the near future. Our district analysis is that Apple is till
delivering the fastest and most fully multimedia integrated machines on
the educational market.
Best Company Sales and Support to Education
Apple has the most sophisticated sales and support force for education.
Some PC resellers are providing excellent service, but no PC manufacturer
can provide the information, assistance, and support that Apple has been
so good at developing over the last 20 years. In addition, the majority
of Apple's educational support and sales personnel are former teachers
themselves and have a good understanding of the needs of teachers and
students and how technology enhances learning. The other manufacturers
tend to hire business graduates who do not have the important experience
and knowledge. Again, Compaq is making in-roads in this area by
developing a functioning educational marketing team complete with former
educators and former Apple employees... but it will be a while in
developing.
Conclusion: Macintosh is Still the Best Platform for Education
Our students do get very upset when they know that they can do things on
the Mac that the Window machine can't or they can't get the Windows
multimedia functions to work properly. But Kids are extremely adaptable
and can use any platform or combination of platforms seamlessly. However,
when I consider the strictly adult reasons for choosing a platform,
money, resources, capabilities for learning, and fewer problems--
Macintosh is still the best computer platform for education.
Will Apple Survive is Also An Issue: Chrysler Came Back - So Can Apple
But "which is better" is not the only issue in the platform debate. Many
school districts and other educational institutions have questioned their
continued purchase of Macintosh based on the possibility that Apple won't
survive. The current media feeding frenzy and the Apple's dying spin they
are putting on all stories about Apple have made everyone wonder. I have
wondered myself, but every time I get very far down that path, I think of
four truths: 1) Media frenzies are examples of stampede behavior and they
are most often inaccurate perceptions of reality-- I shouldn't believe
everything I read or see on TV; 2) That Jobs, Wozniak, and Kawasaki are
back involved in Apple and that will count for something; 3) Chrysler
nearly went under and came back to lead their industry -- so can Apple;
4) That real competition provides Education with the best software and
hardware... and we need that competition to provide us with choices and
better products.
Apple will probably still have more bad news in their struggle, but many
of us sincerely believe that they will make it in the market place and
remain Education's most prolific platform. Compaq is right on their heals
though in focusing on education and will provide some great competition.
But that is the major point, education needs that competition real
competition between hardware and platforms.
Uncertainty in the Computer World in General: Who Knows Where It is
Going!?
Another factor that has heightened anxiety over the Mac/Windows platform
debate, is the general anxiety about the vast amount of uncertainty and
risk there is in the computer world in general. The world of computing is
about to (or at least most people anticipate that it will) go through
several major metamorphoses. The fight over Win-tel's (Microsoft Windows
and Intel) support for Windows NT on IBM and Motorola chips has
technology directors wondering which way to go. The addition of the
Apple/Next acquisition, Rhapsody, multi-platform operating system, and
what advances it will bring to the desktop.
The techno-world seems even more disconcerting by the battle between the
use of thin clients/client server desk-top networks versus the full blown
multimedia machines with "bloatware," large programs requiring big
operating and storage memory. The introduction of radically new products
especially designed for Education, such as, Apple's new E-Mate 300
portable for students adds to the mix of questions about what to buy. All
this uncertainty has left many educators very nervous about computing in
general. It is all moving so fast and any decision you make could become
a mistake. However, the best advise for how to make decisions in today's
very uncertain world might be to go with adult reasons for making
decisions: Which platform that exists right now saves the most money,
time, and effort, and simultaneously, delivers the most features that
educators and students need at the best price?
________________
About the author: Michael J. Johnson is currently Deputy Superintendent
for Instruction and Technology for the Conroe Independent School District
in Conroe, Texas, a northern suburb of Houston. In the last five years he
has been involved technology planning as a professor and consultant to
higher education and to K-12 school districts in over 30 states. <
mikej@infohwy.com>
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mac.2344madamov,
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 97 12:05:48 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: !! - Journalist Says Apple Fanatics the Cause of Apple's Problems
Message-ID: <199703202007.MAA23062@scv3.apple.com>
This action item is from:
The Digital Guy <evangelist@apple.com>
There's an interesting piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer, "Apple Culprit
is Close at Hand". After trashing Apple evangelists as the cause of
Apple's problems, the journalist makes an interesting attempt at
appeasing those same "fanatics" with these words:
"Users of IBM compatibles, however, should bear this in mind: The Mac is
good for you. Competitive pressure from Apple keeps Microsoft and Intel
on their toes. Monopoly helps nobody except the monopolists.
"And computer buyers should bear in mind that, even though the gap has
narrowed dramatically, the Mac is still the easiest-to-use home or
business PC available."
You can read the whole article at:
<http://www.phillynews.com/tech.life/COMP20.htm>
John J. Halbig
(a.k.a the Digital Guy)
e-mail: evangelist@apple.com
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article! Keep cool, stick to the facts, and be prepared to back them up
with references and URL's (if possible). Also, remember to CC:
ccapple@apple.com!
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mac.2345askripka,
-> #2338, madamov=- Kaže se: modulator. B)
Ma znam ja to... Al' ovo je lepše... Možda neko pomisli da si
stručnjak za avione... :))
mac.2346ljubisha,
-> #2339, madamov>Šta fali Nortovonom Disk Editoru?
Za sada ništa ali se ipak bojim da ga startujem. Nije ovo Atari gde
sam ipak znao šta radim i šta da očekujem ako pogrešim. :)
mac.2347madamov,
Novo u direktorujumu, thanks to askripka:
mac\misc\*.*
------------------
cpc_ppc.sit 319k ű Amstrad CPC464/664/6128 emulator, PPC verzija 1.3.1
mac.2348madamov,
Novo u direktorijumu, thanks to askripka:
mac\misc\*.*
------------------
cpc_68k.sit 299k ű Amstrad CPC464/664/6128 emulator, 680x0 verzija 1.3.1
tidbits.371mac.2349madamov,
TidBITS#371/24-Mar-97
=====================
Apple's PowerBooks not only redefined the laptop computer
industry, but also embodied a nebulous combination of style,
innovation, and prestige - elements Apple has been trying regain.
In this issue, we take real-world looks at the newest contenders:
the PowerBook 1400 and 3400, the latter currently holding the
title as fastest laptop in the world. Also, Adam raises some
interesting questions about Apple's decision to drop Open
Transport in Rhapsody.
Topics:
MailBITS/24-Mar-97
Rhapsody and Networks: Some Questions
PowerBook 1400/133: Poise and Punch
PowerBook 3400: The Ultimate Laptop?
<http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-371.html>
<ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/issues/1997/TidBITS#371_24-Mar-97.etx>
Copyright 1997 TidBITS Electronic Publishing. All rights reserved.
Information: <info@tidbits.com> Comments: <editors@tidbits.com>
---------------------------------------------------------------
mac.2350madamov,
[8] QuickTime VR 2.0 Tools and Marketing Support Offered
QuickTime VR 2.0 Authoring Tools Suite and the book/CD-ROM package,
Virtual Reality Programming With QuickTime VR 2.0, can now be ordered
from this web site:
<http://www.devcatalog.apple.com/www/adccat/@287295prkpdm/product.html?reco
rd@403+from@hotlink>
QuickTime VR 2.0 includes these features and improvements:
* A Mac OS system extension for QuickTime VR.
* An API (application programming interface) that lets QuickTime VR 1.0
or 2.0 content be played back using the QuickTime VR 2.0 system
extension. The API includes support for integrating video, 3D sprites,
and sounds into QuickTime VR panoramas and objects.
* Many new object features, such as the ability to zoom in on objects,
pan on zoomed-in objects, and create hot spots on objects. QuickTime VR
also includes improved support for object animation.
* An improved user interface; movies are played back in QuickTime Movie
Player and include a control strip with buttons for zooming, hot spot
identification, and moving back in a scene.
* Improvements in the stability, error messages, and memory usage of the
Authoring Tools Suite.
Apple plans to ship QuickTime 2.5 for 32-bit Windows soon, then shortly
after that, expect to see a QuickTime VR 2.0 extension for 32-bit
Windows. This is a new QuickTime plug-in that supports QuickTime VR 2.0
playback and features, and an Asset XTRA to support QuickTime VR 2.0
authoring in Macromedia Director.
For projects that need Windows support before 32-bit Windows support is
available, or for projects that need 16-bit Windows support, continue to
use QuickTime VR 1.0. (You can use the version 2.0 stitcher, then dice
your movie using version 1.0.) For your convenience, the QuickTime VR 1.0
tools and PDF documentation are included on the QuickTime VR 2.0
Authoring Tools Suite CD-ROM.
For more information on QuickTime VR and its benefits, go to:
<http://qtvr.quicktime.apple.com/>
In addition, Apple is looking to help developers who want to create
QuickTime VR utilities and software titles that use QuickTime VR. If
you're interested in creating such software, send an e-mail describing
your ideas to David Palermo <palermo@apple.com>.
mac.2351madamov,
[11] Apple's Restructuring, Viewed Inside and Out
This week Apple posted several press releases on the company's continued
restructuring. Here are highlights, as well as web site addresses where
you can get more details:
* Apple CEO Gilbert F. Amelio detailed a restructuring plan that sharpens
the company's focus on strengths that have been at the heart of its past
success: exceptionally easy-to-use personal and mobile computers with
unique multimedia and Internet capabilities.
<http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q2/970314.pr.rel.rest
ructure.html>
* Apple has also posted a frequently-asked-questions (FAQ) document that
discusses Apple's product and technology priorities:
<http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q2/970314.pr.rel.faq.
html>
* The two most popular Macintosh-related publications have reacted
favorably to this restructuring:
--The MacWEEK article "Developers to Apple: 'You have our support'"
<http://www.macweek.com/mw_1111/nw_developers.html>
--Don Crabb's MacWEEK column
<http://www.macweek.com/mw_1111/op_crabb.html>
--Macworld's article "Mac Faithful Unfazed by Latest Announcement"
<http://www.macworld.com/daily/daily.1127.html>
mac.2352madamov,
---------------------------------------
WEB-BYTES--Pointers to More News and Software
---------------------------------------
--> Java Media Framework API Specification
A draft of the Java Media Player, the first part of the Java Media
Framework specification, is now available. The JavaSoft team plans to
publish the final, industry-reviewed specification in early April. To
download a copy:
<http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/mediaplayer/>
--> BBS in a Box, Volume 20
BBS in a Box is a standard among Internet bulletin board administrators
for supplying Mac OS files to users. Now the Arizona Macintosh Users
Group (AMUG) has converted the collection to a web format for Internet
access as well. Volume 20 contains more than 4 GB worth of files,
available for U.S.$ 39 (plus U.S.$ 5 shipping within the United States;
U.S.$ 10 international). For more product or ordering information:
<http://cdrom.amug.org>
--> Corrections on MkLinux and CD Apprentice Articles
In last week's article on MkLinux, we failed to mention that MkLinux also
supports the Power Macintosh 7600 computer and that the MkLinux Reference
Release is a book and a two-CD set. Developer Release 2.1--one of the two
CDs in the Reference Release--is also available separately.
Also, the Apprentice 6 Programmer Resource CD is U.S.$ 22.50 per issue,
not per year. It comes out twice a year; by all accounts, it's still a
great bargain. You can order it through this web site:
<http://www.celestin.com>
mac.2354madamov,
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 97 14:52:52 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: ;-) - Arthur C. Clarke and Windows 95
Message-ID: <199703212252.OAA17660@scv1.apple.com>
This tidbit is from:
Daniel Downey, <ddowney@u.washington.edu>
Mr Clarke was participating in a panel discussion via the Internet as a
part of Cyberfest '97. This was held at the University of Illinois at
Urbana, the "birthplace" of HAL.
At the conference, Clarke chose his preference for HAL's first words:
"Good morning doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95
from my hard drive"
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mac.2353madamov,
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 97 14:52:50 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - College Switches from Next to Apple
Message-ID: <199703212252.OAA20204@scv1.apple.com>
This tidbit is from:
Darrell Hahn, <hahnd@EM.AGR.CA>
An interesting note I received from a mailing list out of the University
of California Davis - UCD (Sharie Sprague is the list manager
<sasprague@ucdavis.edu>).
Interesting that they're not switching to WinTel systems...
COLLEGE SWITCHES FROM NEXT TO APPLES
Allegheny College, which invested heavily in Next computers in 1991, is
shifting over to Apple Computers as it replaces aging machines. "With
Apple's recent acquisition of Next Computer, what was for us a
technically superior but orphaned operating system has the potential to
reach mainstream, industry-wide acceptance," says Allegheny's director of
educational computing. "While others may be abandoning Apple as a campus
strategic platform, we are aggressively exploring adopting Apple
technology."
(Chronicle of Higher Education 21 Mar 97)
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mac.2355madamov,
Brussels, March 20, 1997. - Highware announces FileCryptA, its new
encryption software for Macintosh computers that is compatible with PGPA.
FileCrypt is a high security cryptographic software with an easy-to-use
interface, based on a technology known as Public Key Encryption.
FileCrypt allows you to communicate and exchange information securely
with other people. The information (mail, files, etc.) can be sent over
the internet or through any kind of electronic channel or media.
FileCrypt is compatible with PGPAE, the standard in public-key encryption
software. This means that files encrypted or signed with FileCrypt can be
opened by the receiver whether he uses PGP or FileCrypt. Alternatively,
you can also verify signatures or decrypt data encrypted with PGP under
any operating system be it Mac OS, Windows or UNIX.
FileCrypt is integrated into the System and is available in all
applications. This makes FileCrypt much more easier to use than many
other encryption software. FileCrypt works on any Macintosh computer with
system 7.1 or higher.
The two main features are:
By "digitally" signing a message or file, the recipient will have the
guarantee that the message or file is coming from you and that nobody
altered the message or file during its transfer.
A message or file is encrypted using a Public Key. When using public key
cryptography, you don't need to transmit a password to the recipient of
the message for him/her to be able to decipher and read it. Instead,
everyone has two related keys: A public key and a secret key. Data
encrypted using a public key can only be decrypted using the related
secret key. This makes it a very safe way to transfer information through
non-secure channels. Public keys can be freely distributed and are
available on many public servers.
"Until recently, encrypting messages with a public key was reserved only
to the happy few who knew how to manipulate complicated and often
sophisticated software. With FileCrypt, it has now become possible for
virtually all Macintosh users to also send and receive mail in a secure
way" says Olivier MErenne, Highware's Managing Director. And to quote one
of Highware's beta testers: "FileCrypt makes it convenient and practical
for the first time for the average Mac user to protect and authenticate
his mail with PGP-strength encryption. Everyone who uses e-mail should
own a copy, and use it faithfully".
Highware has been developing security products for the Macintosh platform
since 1987 when it first released FileGuard. To date, with the newly
released 3.0 version, FileGuard has become a standard for Macintosh OS
security software. Other software developed by Highware are DiskGuard,
PopupFolder, Personal Backup and MultiHome.
System requirements: Mac OS System 7.1 or later.
To obtain an evaluation version, you can either download it from
<http://www.highware.com/filecrypt/> or you can contact Highware at
<info@highware.com> and ask to send you an evaluation version. FileCrypt
is priced at $89 and can be ordered directly on the Highware web site.
FileCryptA is a registered trademark of Highware. PGP is a registered
trademark of PGP, Inc. Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple
Computer, Inc.
mac.2356madamov,
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 97 12:34:03 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Business Week Reviews PowerBook 3400
Message-ID: <199703242035.MAA21408@scv3.apple.com>
This tidbit is from:
Claudia Kulesh, <kulesh@math.umass.edu>
Business Week Online has a review of the new Apple Powerbook (from the
3/31/97 issue of BW):
A PUMPED-UP POWERBOOK. Technology & You columnist Steve Wildstrom reviews
Apple's new PowerBook 3400 -- and finds that there's creative life left
in the company that helped pioneer the PC.
<http://www.businessweek.com/1997/13/b352027.htm>
It starts out:
"Apple Computer, bouncing from crisis to crisis, hasn't given its fans
much except bad news lately. But the legions of Mac maniacs finally have
something to cheer about. With its well-designed and superfast new
laptop, the PowerBook 3400, Apple has reminded the computing world of the
technology leader it once was and perhaps can become again."
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mac.2357madamov,
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 97 12:34:20 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Mark Allen Digital Video Magazine Article
Message-ID: <199703242036.MAA19186@scv3.apple.com>
Keyword: Advocacy, Why Macs Are Better
This tidbit is from:
Martin Maier, <mpmaier@mindspring.com>
Just read a great article in the April issue of Digital Video Magazine
about a guy who created a five minute video trailer for a hollywood film
he wants to make. The best part is he created the entire five minute
trailer completely on the Mac.
Mark Allen is the filmmaker/scriptwriter and the film he wants to make is
called The Shapemaker. He has some great quotes like:
"I wouldn't be doing graphics at all if it wasn't for the Mac. The
interface is really welcoming. And QuickTime helps all the programs work
together fluidly. When you're switching between eight programs, that's a
major advantage."
"It's interesting to go into a high-end video facility and see the
reaction when they find out ShapeMaker was done on a single Mac. They
looked very closely because of the enormous price difference between
their equipment and mine."
This article is all about empowerment and how the computer, especially
the Mac, allows one to realize their dreams.
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mac.2358madamov,
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 97 12:34:31 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Mac Syncs The Session
Message-ID: <199703242036.MAA07472@scv3.apple.com>
Keyword: Advocacy, Macintosh in Action
This tidbit is from:
K. McGee, <mastermix@pan.com>
A couple of months ago I was setting up a new Mac to do Internet and MIDI
for Lamar Mitchell, a colleague and friend of mine who is a well-traveled
musician and producer. He is a multiplatform guy... a large portion of
his music sequencing is still done on his trusty Atari 1040 (don't
laugh... they were and may still hold large market share doing MIDI
sequencing in Europe), and he does a decent amount of work on PC's as
well. He had a session coming up with one of his clients, keyboardist
Bernie Worrell(of Parliament/Funkadelic fame and a Mac user as well), to
do a remix of a tune they had worked on some time ago.
But he ran into a snag.
For some reason the Atari would not sync properly to the SMPTE timecode
that was the timing reference for the sequencer. The sequenced MIDI
tracks would not run in sync with the prerecorded audio. Not good... one
of the worst things that Murphy can throw at you in a studio situation.
So I set up his Mac with a MIDI sequencing program and had it act as the
SMPTE-to-MIDI converter which in turn drove the Atari... the lock was
perfect.
I emailed Lamar the day after the session to see how things had gone...
he said everything went GREAT!
Macintosh saved the day!
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mac.2359madamov,
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 97 16:45:10 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Why Apple's Survival matters
Message-ID: <199703250044.QAA12290@scv1.apple.com>
This tidbit is from:
Larry Roth, <rothl@wadsworth.org>
The March 23 column by Dan Gillmor in the Mercury Center News is a must
read. While the press has been proclaiming the downfall of Apple and the
industry acts more and more as though Apple has become irrelevant, almost
no one has been looking at the other side of the issue. For all the glee
PC partisan seem to exhibit over Apple's troubles, they don't realize
that they're painting themselves into a corner. One of the great virtues
of our economic system is the availability of choice; that's in danger of
disappearing. The URL for the column is:
<http://www.sjmercury.com/business/gillmor/dg032397.htm>
The next time someone tells you Microsoft has won, show them this and ask
them if they feel like celebrating.
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mac.2360madamov,
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 97 20:43:30 -0800
From: Guy Kawasaki <gkawasaki@macway.com>
Subject: Interesting Story
Message-ID: <199703250442.UAA29089@dnai.com>
<http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/970320/business/stories/journal_1.html>
"HOUSTON (Reuter) - A federal jury Thursday awarded a defunct securities
firm $222.7 million in damages in a libel suit against Dow Jones & Co.
Inc., the publisher of the Wall Street Journal.
..
The jury's decision followed a two-week trial in which Houston-based MMAR
Group Inc. said it had been forced out of business by a critical,
error-filled article published in the Wall Street Journal on Oct. 21,
1993."
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mac.2361madamov,
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:26:15 -0500 (EST)
From: MacWay@aol.com
Subject: Must Read--Information Week Piece
Message-ID: <970325102612_310096375@emout08.mail.aol.com>
Now appearing on http://www.informationweek.com
Confessions Of A Computer Atheist:
Why It Pays To Keep An Open Mind About Platforms
By Rich Levin <RBLevin@compuserve.com>
March 24, 1997
Long before portable computers provided desktop computing power, I
decided to do away with my desktop systems and go strictly portable. It
was challenging, at first, to accomplish my everyday computing tasks on
machines with mediocre processors, small monochrome screens, abysmal
keyboards, limited storage, and virtually no expandability. But I managed.
For me, the difficulty of maintaining separate desktop and portable
systems, in terms of data and configuration synchronization, was a
greater price to pay than the challenge of performing high-grade work on
low-grade portables. What my portable computers lacked in desktop
performance and expandability they more than made up for in productivity.
Wherever I found myself on the face of the planet, my digital world was
with me.
Portable computers have long been marketed under headlines such as
"Finally! Desktop computing power for the road!" Only recently, however,
have portable computer manufacturers actually delivered desktop power in
a lightweight box. A well-engineered notebook computer with a 12.1-inch,
active-matrix color display, integrated CD-ROM, high-performance
processor, huge hard disk, lots of memory, and PC Card slots will give
the best desktop boxes a run for their money.
Finally! Really expensive desktop computing power for the road! And the
pace at which the notebook vendors are improving their products'
capabilities is accelerating. Consider this: In the past year, I've moved
from a 90-MHz Pentium notebook, to a 120-MHz box, to 133-MHz, all of
which weigh under 5 pounds, and all of which spin Windows 95 like a top.
And I've just upgraded again, this time to a 200-MHz notebook, loaded
with high-performance features. In addition to hosting the fastest
notebook processor available today, here's what's in the box: PCI bus; 16
Mbytes of RAM (which I wasted no time in expanding to 32 Mbytes); 2-Gbyte
IDE (integrated development environment) hard disk; hot-swappable 6x
CD-ROM, floppy, or Zip drive (!); stereo speakers; integrated SCSI
controller; 10Base-T Ethernet port; 33.6 fax-modem; zoomed video; SVGA
and IrDA ports; and a full-size, full-stroke keyboard with a track pad
and wrist-rest.
Interestingly, the only thing the system didn't have was a pre-loaded
version of Windows 95. But no biggie. I fired up an installation CD and
slammed Windows 95 into the box. I'm now in the process of porting all of
my Windows 95 applications and data over to the new machine, which so far
appears to chew on everything just fine. No indigestion yet detected.
If I haven't lost you to an advertiser's hyperlink by now, then I'm
certain you're drooling (check your shirt and let me know). Yes, in a
word, this Windows 95 notebook is a beauty. But--surprise!--it's also a
Macintosh.
Stay with me. Don't let that old-time computing religion get in the way
of an enlightening op-ed piece. From this point on, bear in mind that I'm
a computing atheist. In addition to my new PowerBook, I maintain a
Windows 95 notebook, an OS/2 box, and a sweet Linux machine. (Not to
mention various and sundry personal digital assistants, a Web TV set-top
box, and an occasional tryst with a Sony PlayStation.)
Why check out the Mac? For the same reasons we in IT regularly check out
all kinds of new, different, and often wacky technologies. To see for
myself what the platform is all about. To expand my experience base, as a
developer, by exploring new and different programming tools, and by
scaling new multiplatform development challenges. To see if this
technology is worth supporting, at a time when Apple needs the support
most.
In my view, if we're willing to seriously consider, and in some cases
rebuild, systems around the World Wide Web, Java, and the network
computer, then it behooves us to revisit the original alternative
computing platform. In fact, while it's drop-dead easy to acquire a
portable Mac and explore its many benefits, chief among them ease of use
(read: lower cost of ownership), it'll be quite some time before portable
NCs are even on the drawing board, let alone available. If ever.
What about Apple's management, finance, and market problems? Is it sheer
insanity to commit to a platform that, if you believe the industry
pundits, is unalterably destined for extinction or, worse,
marginalization? These are the same "experts" who predicted we'd all be
using OS/2 by 1990, and that Microsoft would never recover from its
year-long ignorance of the Web. Wrong, and wrong again.
It is also these same experts who further the notion that the next great
panacea is the NC platform. Sorry, but the next great panacea isn't the
NC. It's Java, and future languages like it that employ a "write once,
run anywhere" model via multiple virtual machines hosted on multiple
operating systems. Just wait until some of the portable, powerful, true
Web Basic languages now under development see the light of day (sorry,
can't say who). The legions of Basic developers who gag when they read
Java source code will have a direct on-ramp to the Web. And that's when
the real fun begins.
Apple's recent large-scale layoffs and jettisoning of key technologies,
such as OpenDoc (which was D.O.A. anyway), were long overdue, and have
the distinct and decisive fingerprint of one Steven P. Jobs. Now the
deeds are done. The company is focusing back on its core competencies
(building workstation-class hardware with scalable user interfaces), has
a next-generation operating system in the works, and is betting on Java
and JavaBeans as its development and component strategy, respectively.
Next's Unix-based operating system and development tools technology are
unarguably state-of-the-art, and just plain fun to use and work with.
(Yes, at one time I had an Intel PC running NextStep, so I speak from
experience. That was 1995, and it was still more advanced than the stuff
I work with today.) As a developer, the prospect of developing for a
brand-new, built-for-the-new-millennium operating system is refreshing,
exciting, and sure to be challenging.
If Apple can meet their delivery schedules, and deliver their
next-generation operating system in 1998 as promised, the platform is as
worthy of enterprise IT consideration as any other alternative,
Net-centric, Java-based computing platform. In fact, it's more worthy,
because over 25 million Macintosh computers boot up every day, compared
to a handful of darn near-prototype NCs.
And all the grousing about Steve Jobs is also so much hot air. Give the
guy a chance. He's not the same pimply faced kid who started Apple
Computer 21 years ago, on April 1, 1976. He's a seasoned executive with
more experience, grand successes, and brilliant friends (read: Larry
Ellison) than you or I likely could ever lay claim to. Hopefully, he's
learned from his mistakes and maintained a firm grip on his vision. If
so, both Bill Gates and Scott McNealy may have a formidable new
competitor to reckon with.
Apple zealots and bigots alike say they "bleed six colors", a reference
to Apple's rainbow-colored logo. Well, I don't bleed six colors, nor do I
fly a Windows flag. I'm a programmer, and I bleed 1's and 0's, the common
heart and soul of every computing platform. I'm willing to give the
MacOS, even in its current incarnation, a chance. If you're willing to
consider Java, NCs, the NetPC, and other alternative platforms, then, by
rights, the Macintosh is worthy of fair and equal consideration.
In doing so, you may experience a simple, yet profound discovery: The Mac
is the only computer that starts every day with a smile. It's consistent
user interface, intelligent applications, and way-cool development tools
make me and tens of thousands of other developers smile from that moment
on. That, plus a Windows emulator and a strong dose of Java, may well be
the perfect blend of desktop power and Internet panache your IT staff can
exploit, deploy, and smile about today.
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mac.2362madamov,
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 97 23:30:33 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Words From A Windows "Guru"
Message-ID: <199703260729.XAA13332@scv3.apple.com>
Keyword: Advocacy, Windows Daymares
This tidbit is from:
Fred Puhan, <fpuhan@deltek.com>
As highlighted on the COVER PAGE of the March 24, 1997 issue of INFOWORLD
<http://www.infoworld.com> and from the pen of Brian Livingston, author
of *5* Windows books:
"I've never installed a major upgrade of any Microsoft product without
running into major headaches."
The article goes on to say, "I always have to spend several hours
tinkering with my data and settings before I'm comfortable with my
production system."
Is THIS what we want from our personal computers? As a comparison, I just
installed MacOS 7.6 on my Performa 6400 in one sitting -- unattended. And
everything works flawlessly.
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mac.2363madamov,
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 97 23:30:48 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com>
Subject: Windows 95 Supporting Journalist Changes Tune
Message-ID: <199703260730.XAA16960@scv3.apple.com>
This tidbit is from:
Luc Lefebvre, <lefebvre@medcor.mcgill.ca>
I was reading Saturday's issue of Montreal's "La Presse", a widely read
newspaper which has a daly column called "Cyberpresse".
This article was written by Eric Bernatchez <bernatch@mlink.net> who had
a position that went along the lines of: These days MacOS or Win95,
pretty much the same thing as far as ease of use and Win95 is more
widespread so its the obvious rational choice.
This new article caught my attention when I read its title "Un probleme?
Allez, hop! 'Reinstallez Window'" ( ie. Got a problem? Woopty-doo!
Reinstall Windows).
The essence of the article is that he was confronted by an acquaintace
who had been talked into switching from MacOS to Win95 (their'e the
same...) and has been in a world of pain ever since. Mr. Bernatchez was
asked to help getting this Wintel box operational and after multiple
calls to Micro$oft (where the standard solution for any problem is
"reistall Windows...") and as many failures he states that (I am
translating here...):
"Confronted with his machines irrational behaviour, it dawned upon me
that taking the position of Windows advocate is of the lowest possible
ethics. I am ashamed" (ie. Devant le comportement irrationnel de sa
machine, j'ai compris que se poser en dfenseur de Windows releve de la
plus profonde bassesse. J'ai honte.).
He goes on to say that the lack of protection against errors in Win95
should justify a world wide class action suit against MS for foisting
such a brittle OS upon the world (ie. Le manque de protecion contre les
erreurs de Win95 justifierait un recours collectif mondial pour systeme
trop fragile).
He then ends his article stating that a possible solution is that for all
the years that Bill Gates has been around he probably is quite buggy. Why
not try to reinstall him... I wouldn't fix anything but it would make us
feel better. (ie. Quelle est la solution? Depuis le temps que Bill Gates,
le fondateur de Microsoft, roule sa bosse, il est sans doute rempli de
bogues. Pourquoi ne pas essayer de le reinstaller. Ca ne reglerait pas
nos problemes, mais ca serait un bon soulagement!).
Do we detect a crack in the old not-so-ivory tower of MS?
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mac.2364askripka,
A sada malo o aliasima...
Dakle... Nedavno mi je pod ruku došao neki CD. Da bi sebi olakšao
instalacije sa CD-a, čovek koji ga je pravio je (bar ja tako
pretpostavljam) napravio lepo aliase od važnijih installer-a.
Međutim... Stvar ne radi... Naime, alias 'ne vidi' original.
Očigledno prilikom snimanja CD-a treba (možda) nešto dodatno
podesiti da bi stvar proradila... Ili ne treba? (možda je čovek
'kiksnuo' negde drugde?)
Ako neko ima neke informacije o pomenutom postupku, dobrodošče su...
CD je naravno snimljen kao HFS...
mac.2365ljubisha,
Jel može jedno kratko uputstvo za korišćenje onog Telnet programa
iz DIR-a? Nešto nikako ne uspevam da ukapiram kako to radi. :(
mac.2366nenad,
Predsednik Oracle-a se izgleda merači da kupi Apple...
Oracle's Ellison mulls $1 billion bid for Apple
Larry Ellison, chairman and CEO of Oracle, and an investor
group are considering launching a $1 billion bid to take over
troubled Apple Computer, according to a published report.
If such a bid were successful, Apple top management, including
Chairman and CEO Gil Amelio, would be replaced, Ellison said in
an interview published Thursday in the San Jose Mercury News.
"Apple is in desperate need of all new management and
leadership," Ellison said. "I think Apple can be saved. I think
Apple should be saved."
Mindful of the reaction that his comments may have, Ellison
said the bid is dependent on reaction from the market and
Apple's major investors. Ellison also said Steve Jobs would
likely be a member of the Apple board, but not a top manager,
if Ellison gains control of Apple.
However the stock market was unmoved by Ellison's comments.
Apple stock remained at 17 1/2 points and Oracle stock dropped
3/4 of a point during the morning's trading on the Nasdaq Stock
Exchange.
mac.2367ljubisha,
Jel može da Meka da se prikači pc serijski miš? A ako može jel će
da radi i desni taster? Prevashodno mi treba zbog Atari emulatora. Ko
će da otvara pasijans i stalno drži ruku na tastaturi. :)
mac.2368ljubisha,
Ah, da! Potrebuje se MacAnim Viewer a za sada bi mu prevasho jedina
namena bila da pušta FLI animacije. Već sam jednom pitao ali niko nije
čuo (?) za FLI a sad sam se setio da pogledam u InternetConfig i tamo
sam našao da to radi pomenuti program.
Ustvari, može i uput na neki link koji drži ovakve stvari.
mac.2369askripka,
-> #2367, ljubisha=- Jel može da Meka da se prikači pc serijski miš? A ako može jel
će da radi i desni taster? Prevashodno mi treba zbog Atari
emulatora. Ko će da otvara pasijans i stalno drži ruku na tastaturi. :)
Teško... Najblaže rečeno...
Ali, ako ti je baš toliko stalo do emulatora sa 2 tastera, možeš
sebi da priuštiš miševe bar 10-ak proizvođača sa 2 tastera... Ako ti je i to
malo, može i sa 4 tastera... U obe varijante predlažem 'Kensington'.