Apple Unveils Major New Release of Java for Macintosh
Java Performance Now Five Times Faster
CUPERTINO, California–Feb. 15, 1999–Apple Computer today announced
a major new release of its Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for Macintosh
which is up to five times faster than previous versions of Java on
Macintosh, based on industry standard CaffeineMark3 benchmarks.
February 15, 1999
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949-261-2800
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PRICES ON SONNET’S 366 MHZ UPGRADES FOR G3 MACS DROP TO $699
SONNET LEADS MAC UPGRADE MARKET WITH DRAMATIC PRICE DROPS FOR G3 POWERMACS
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA. February 15, 1999. Sonnet Technologies announced
a dramatic price drop to $699.95 for the EncoreTM G3 366MHz/1M
processor upgrade cards for G3 Power MacintoshTM computers.
Welcome to “Valentina”, dear Developer.
We are proud to introduce new database engine, which brings new
levels of performance – it works in 100-1000 times faster on all
major database operations then all existing database engines on
MacOS, see benchmarks at (http://www.kagi.com/paradigma).
In particular: indexing 100-200 times faster;
searching 100-500+ times faster;
sorting )1000 times faster.
Yes, this is unbelievable!
Not in 2 times, even not in 20 times, but in hundreds times faster.
And this breakthrough was
From:
http://swupdates.info.apple.com/cgi-bin/http_lister.pl?Apple_Support_A
rea/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Jav
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Name: Mac OS Runtime for Java
Version: 2.1
Released: February 13, 1999
Requires:
A Macintosh computer with a PowerPC processor; System 7.6.1 or later;
24 megabytes (MB) of RAM. For better performance, 32 MB of RAM is
recommended, with virtual memory turned on and set to at least 33 MB.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
A MAJOR UPDATE TO THE FREE, FAST, POWERFUL, AND EASY TO USE PROGRAMMER’S
LIBRARY FOR CREATING SPRITE ANIMATION IN MACINTOSH PROGRAMS
February 12, 1999
Vern Jensen today officially released SpriteWorld 2.2 as freeware to
the Macintosh programming community. SpriteWorld 2.2 is the latest
update to the widely respected SpriteWorld animation library
originally written by Tony Myles in 1993-94, and updated to version
2.0 by Karl Bunker and Vern Jensen in 1996.