Year: 1996

Version 1.4.4 of MoreFiles is now available.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Hans Martin Kern
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Press Contact: Andrew Clarke (aclarke@pictorius.com) 902.492.2880 x248

December 17, 1996

Pictorius Adds Mail Server and Three New Agents
to Free Macintosh Net Servers

December 17, 1996 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada – Pictorius Inc. today
announced the release of version 1.1 of their free Pictorius Net Servers
(formerly Entrada! Net Servers) for Macintosh. Version 1.1 includes a Mail
(SMTP and POP3) server, three new agents, redesigned security features and
performance optimizations.

contact:
Trygve Isaacson
trygve@bombaydigital.com
(http://www.bombaydigital.com)

For Immediate Release

The Gray Council 2.0 Is Available

The Gray Council — C++ classes implementing the Apple Grayscale Appearance.

Berkeley, California — December 17, 1996 — Today marks the release of
version 2.0 of The Gray Council, a set of C++ classes providing the
premiere implementation of the “Apple Grayscale Appearance for System 7.”
This is Apple’s grayscale user interface design specification recommended
for today’s applications, consistent with the future Appearance Manager
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For those who might possibly be interested, an _informal, non-official,
non-Apple-sanctioned_ discussion about the design of a new graphical user
interface and windowing system for the next generation of Macintosh
operating system is talking place on the GX dev mailing list and the
AIMED-talk mailing list [see sig for subscription info].

Background:

Apple Computer’s attempts to create a transitional operating system have
failed, at least partly due to a lack of a pre-emptive multitasking-enabled
graphical user interface and windowing system in their transitional OS
design.

The