Year: 2001

As every Mac users knows, applications designed for another platform cannot run under the Mac OS until they have been ported. Besides rewriting the code, though, it’s possible for a microchip to “translate” the code from one platform to another. Transitive Technologies is working on one such solution and believes it will be successful where others have failed.

Symantec has posted updated definitions for Norton AntiVirus versions 5.x-7.x. The new file adds detection and eradication support for the Mac.Simpsons@mm AppleScript virus.

Adaptec has posted a firmware update for their 39160 SCSI card, as noted on VersionTracker. The update fixes several problems including a sleep issue with the Power Macintosh G4 with 133MHz system bus running at 466, 533, 677, 733MHz; the computer should no longer hang after being put into sleep mode.

In an added vote of confidence for FireWire, chipmaker VIA’s President and CEO Wenchi Chan is telling companies to abandon USB 2.0, saying it’s too confusing to customers and end users. Chan believes that the Apple-developed FireWire will likely become the high-speed connectivity standard.

Symantec has posted Norton Personal Firewall 1.0.2, an update to the firewall utility that adds Mac OS X compatibility.