Year: 1998

[MD1] AppletVIEW Toolkit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AppletVIEW Toolkit, Software For Connecting Java Applets To
Instruments And Physical Devices, Available Now.

) AppletVIEW Toolkit provides engineers and software developers
) an easy way to interact with instrumentation systems over the
) Internet using Java.

Austin, Texas — May 7, 1998 — Nacimiento Software Corporation announced
today the availability of AppletVIEW Toolkit 1.0, a software system for
creating Java applets to communicate through virtual instrumentation
servers to instruments and physical devices over the World Wide Web.
AppletVIEW Toolkit

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[MD1] Disinfectant Retired

As reported by MacCentral, this comes from the Northwestern University ftp
archive…

Disinfectant Retired
Announcement and Press Release
May 6, 1998

I regret to announce that I am officially retiring Disinfectant, our free
anti-viral utility for the Macintosh. The current version 3.7.1 is the last
version. Disinfectant will not be updated for the new Autostart 9805 worm
or for any future viruses, worms, or other Macintosh malware.

I made this decision not because of the new Autostart 9805 worm, but rather
because of the widespread and dangerous Microsoft macro virus problem.

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[MD1] Apple’s iMac

Apple Unveils iMac

The Internet-Age Computer for the Rest of Us

CUPERTINO, California–May 6, 1998–In a major move in to the consumer
market, Apple Computer, Inc. today unveiled iMac–the “Internet-age
computer for the rest of us.” iMac features a striking design, easy
Internet access and Pentium-toasting PowerPC G3 performance for $1299.

“We designed iMac to deliver the things consumers care about most–the
excitement of the Internet and the simplicity of the Mac,” said Steve Jobs,
Apple’s Interim CEO.

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[MD1] OpenGL 1.3

HARDWARE ACCELERATED OPENGL ON THE MAC

Contact Information:
Conix Enterprises, Inc.
Janet Stauffer
805.546.1040
janet@conix3d.com

San Luis Obispo, CA May 5, 1998. Today Conix Enterprises, Inc. released
OpenGL 1.3 which includes hardware acceleration. Applications written in
OpenGL will now be able to tap into a myriad of hardware acceleration board
vendors such as Newer Technology Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., IXmicro,
Village Tronic, Mactell Corp., TechWorks and Phase5.

The hardware acceleration performance is phenomenal.

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[MD1] FileMaker Gets 100% Pure Java Certification

FileMaker Pro 4.0 Developer Edition Gets 100% Pure Java* Certification
from Sun Microsystems

Provides Database Developers True Platform-Independence

Santa Clara, Calif. — May 4, 1998 — FileMaker Pro 4.0 Developer Edition
has received 100% Pure Java Certification from Sun Microsystems’ Java
software division.

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