Apple Ships New Release of MPW Pro and E.T.O. to Macintosh Developers

Developers Benefit from Availability of Important New and Enhanced Software
Tools and Runtime Software

Cupertino, California--February 1, 1995--Apple's commitment to providing
key Macintosh development tools for improving programmer productivity and
facilitating the creation of high performance applications was reinforced
today by the shipment of the most recent releases (Release 16) of the
company's MPW Pro and E.T.O.: Essentials*Tools*Objects products to
developers.

Major new software releases included in Release 16 of both MPW Pro and
E.T.O. are:

-- The first beta release of MrC and MrCpp, new C and C++ compilers for
developing native Power Macintosh applications. These compilers operate up
to four times as quickly as the native version of PPCC, Apple's first
C/C++ compiler for Power Macintosh, and still produce the same
high-performance code that is competitive with the best compilers
available today for the PowerPC processor family.

-- An alpha release of the PPCLink, the MPW-based linker for development of
native Power Macintosh applications. This version is a native tool and is
considerably faster than before; in addition, it is now able to generate
executable applications directly, saving a lengthy conversion step that
was necessary previously.

-- Version 1.1 (final) of PPCAsm, the PowerPC assembler. This assembler now
supports symbolic debugging.

-- A beta release of MPW p2c, an Object Pascal to C/C++ source code
translation system. This handy tool facilitates the translation of
procedural or object-oriented Pascal code into C and C++ code.

-- Version 3.1.2 (final) of MacApp, the leading Macintosh application
framework for creating 680x0-based Macintosh applications and native Power
Macintosh applications. Also included is an early, pre-release of MacApp
3.5 which adds support for AppleScript, PowerTalk mailers, and Macintosh
Drag and Drop.

-- Version 2.0.1 (final) of Ad Lib, a powerful user-interface editing tool
for building views for the MacApp 3.x application framework. Ad Lib
replaces the ViewEdit application which was formerly provided with
MacApp.

-- An alpha release of the Code Fragment Manager (CFM) runtime software for
680x0-based Macintosh systems. CFM-68K supports the development of shared
libraries and drop-in code modules for 680x0-based applications using
programming techniques similar to those used today for development of
native Power Macintosh applications. Pre-release versions of MPW
compilers, linkers, and debuggers that support the CFM-68K runtime are
also included.

-- An alpha release of the System Object Model (SOM) runtime software. SOM
is an object-oriented programming technology for building, packaging, and
manipulating binary class libraries. SOM is an ideal choice for developing
an object-oriented programming interface to a shared library since it
enables binary compatibility between releases.

"Apple remains committed to improving the quality of its core development
tools, particularly in the areas of runtime performance and programmer
productivity," said Pat Harding, Apple's senior manager of Developer Tools
Product Marketing. "The much faster compilation times delivered by the
MrC/MrCpp compilers are important steps in this direction. And the
availability of CFM-68K/SOM runtime software means programmers can now
focus on a single shared library model for all Macintosh systems, thus
simplifying their development efforts."

Price and Availability

MPW Pro, priced at U.S. $495, is provided on a CD-ROM and comes with a
development environment, compilers (C, C++, Assembler), debuggers, and
testing tools for development of 680x0- and PowerPC-based Macintosh
systems. It also includes three introductory tutorial manuals and complete
electronic documentation. Updates from previous versions of MPW Pro are
U.S. $195. Upgrades from older MPW-based products (MPW Development System,
MPW Development Environment, or Macintosh on RISC SDK) are U.S. $295.

E.T.O., priced at U.S. $1,095, is sold as a 3-issue-per-year CD- ROM-based
subscription. Subscription renewals are U.S. $400 per year. E.T.O.
includes all the MPW Pro software as well as Symantec C++ for Macintosh
from Symantec Corporation, an electronic version of the Inside Macintosh
programming reference, and a complete suite of 25 printed reference
manuals.

Both MPW Pro and E.T.O. are available immediately through APDA, Apple's
source for development tools and related programming products. APDA
publishes the APDA Tools Catalog which describes hundreds of Apple and
third-party products. Developers should contact APDA using the following
address or phone numbers.

APDA
Apple Computer, Inc.
P.O. Box 319
Buffalo, NY 14207-0319
800-282-2732 (U.S.A.)
800-637-0029 (Canada)
716-871-6555 (International)
716-871-6511 (Fax)

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industry, creates powerful solutions based on easy-to- use personal
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