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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
defaul

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

CASPER, WY, ISIS International, Inc. announced the introduction of EasyData TM
and EasyCommTM, paired software products designed to provide a new level of
connectivity, simplicity, and power in transferring data between the Apple
MessagePad (and compatible PDAs running the Newton Operating System) and
either Macintosh desktop computers or Windows machines.

The EasyData / EasyComm dual package enables Newton users to work more
efficiently by making it easier to rapidly share data between their PDAs and
either Macs or Windows desktop computers.

For Immediate Release

PartBank and Release Software Deliver
Downloadable Software on the Internet

Developers can conduct software sales on the Internet using Release’s
SalesAgent from www.partbank.com

MENLO PARK, Calif — Dec 16th, 1996 — Kantara Development, the creators of
PartBank, announced an agreement with Release Software Corp., the leading
provider of electronic software distribution products and services.
Through this partnership, software developers can create software products
to sell electronically, directly from their Web site while being indexed
under the Par

SYNERGEX TO PROVIDE APPLE DEVELOPERS WITH INDUSTRY STANDARD INTERSOLV PVCS
SERIES FOR SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

December 9, 1996 Synergex will bring industry-standard software
configuration management (SCM) to Apple Computer Inc.’s popular Macintosh
environment in first quarter 1997, increasing the number of platforms to
which the company has already ported the top-selling INTERSOLV PVCS SERIES.
With the release of PVCS Version Manager for the Macintosh, Apple developers
will for the first time be able to manage source code development across
heterogeneous systems that inc