Apple Announces Beta Macintosh on RISC SDK Now Available to Developers

13 Third Party Tool Vendors Support Power Macintosh Application Development
Efforts

Cupertino, California--March 28, 1994--As part of its overall Power
Macintosh  product strategy, Apple Computer Inc., today announced that the
beta release of the Macintosh  on RISC Software Developer's Kit (SDK) is
now shipping and that a full suite of third party development tools for
the newly released Power Macintosh is available.  The Macintosh on RISC
Software Developer's Kit includes all the tools and documentation
necessary to create new applications or port existing Macintosh
applications--using C or C++--to run native on Apple  PowerPC
processor-based systems.

"The beta release of the Macintosh on RISC SDK is an important milestone in
the delivery of the Power Macintosh since it marks the wide availability
of tools that can be used to build shipping versions of Power Macintosh
applications," said Ike Nassi, vice- president of the Development Products
Group for AppleSoft, a division of Apple Computer.  "Now we will see even
more native applications that take full advantage of the performance of
the Power Macintosh."

On March 14, Apple unveiled Power Macintosh--a new line of Apple Macintosh
personal computers that offer the power of workstation computers, the
affordability of mainstream personal computers, and the capability to run
applications for Macintosh, MS-DOS, and Microsoft Windows.  The Power
Macintosh systems are based on the new PowerPC 601 RISC microprocessor,
jointly developed by Apple, IBM and Motorola.  At launch, there were 20
Power Macintosh optimized applications from Third Parties shipping, with
an additional 50 slated for delivery within 30 days.

Third Party Tools Support Power Macintosh Application Development Apple
along with a number of third party developers also announced today the
availability of a wide-range of Power Macintosh development tools,
including native C and C++ development environments and a Power Macintosh
implementation of Smalltalk.  These products provide a breadth of tools to
meet the needs of a diverse Macintosh development community. In addition,
they provide the tools that will allow developers not currently developing
for the Macintosh to easily transition from other operating system
environments and hardware platforms to the Power Macintosh.

"The Developer Products Group (DPG) has been working with a wide range of
developers to ensure that their needs for tools for transitioning to Power
Macintosh from the 680x0 based Macintosh and other platforms were met,"
said Jordan Mattson, product marketing manager and evangelist for Power
Macintosh Tools, "Our partners in the third-party tools community have
risen to the challenge and are delivering a full range of Power Macintosh
developer tools."

Among the companies announcing Power Macintosh tools are:

-  Absoft Corporation announced the availability within thirty days of the
Absoft FORTRAN 77SDK for Power Macintosh and the Absoft C/C++SDK for Power
Macintosh, complete packages for developing for the Power Macintosh using
FORTRAN or C/C++. For more information, contact Absoft Corporation at 2781
Bond Street, Rochester Hills, MI 48309. (313) 853-0050.

-  ACI US, Inc. announced the immediate availability of Object Master for
Power Macintosh, an integrated programming environment for Pascal, C, and
C++. For more information, contact ACI US, Inc. at 20883 Stevens Creek
Boulevard, Cupertino, California. (408) 252-4444.

- Bowers Development announced the immediate availability of AppMaker, Your
Assistant Programmer for Power Macintosh. AppMaker, an interface builder,
allows you to easily create the interface for a Macintosh application. For
more information, contact Bowers Development at 97 Lowell Road, Concord,
MA 01742. (408) 369-8175.

-  Bare-Bones Software announced the availability within sixty days of
BBEdit for Power Macintosh. BBEdit,is a high-performance programmer's
editor. For more information, contact Bare-Bones Software at 1 Larkspur
Way, #4, Natick, MA 01760. (508) 651-3561.

-  AT&T Bell Laboratories announced the immediate availability of FlashPort
Translation services for Power Macintosh.  Using binary-to-binary
translation technology, FlashPort translates existing 680x0 Macintosh
applications to Power Macintosh applications. For more information,
contact AT&T Bell Laboratories at Cruz Plaza, 943 Holmdel Road, Holmdel,
NJ 07733. (908) 946-1140.

-  Jasik Designs announced the immediate availability of The Debugger V2 &
MacNosy.  The Debugger V2 & MacNosy is a high-level and low- level
debugger for 680x0 and Power Macintosh applications.  It provides tools
for code coverage analysis, incremental linking, and global disassembly.
For more information, contact Jasik Designs at 343 Trenton Way, Menlo
Park, CA 94025. (415) 322-1386.

-  Language Systems Corporation announced the availability within sixty
days of Language Systems FORTRAN/PPC and Language Systems Pascal. Language
Systems FORTRAN/PPC is a FORTRAN compiler for Power Macintosh. Language
Systems Pascal is an Object Pascal compiler for the Power Macintosh. For
more information, contact Language Systems Corporation at 100 Carpenter
Drive, Sterling, VA 20164. (800) 2-LANGSYS

-  Metrowerks announced the immediate availability of CodeWarrior, a native
Power Macintosh development environment for C, C++, and Pascal.  In
addition, CodeWarrior provides PowerPlant, an object- oriented application
framework. For more information, contact Metrowerks at 1500 Du College,
Suite 300, St. Laurent, Quebec  H4L5G6, Canada. (514) 747-5999.

-  MicroAPL Ltd., announced the immediate availability of PortAsm a 680x0
to PowerPC assembly language translator. For more information, contact
MicroAPL Ltd., at West Bank Techno Park, London SE16LN, United Kingdom.
447-1922-8866.

-  Prograph International announced the availability in the third quarter
of 1994 of Prograph CPX for Power Macintosh. Prograph CPX is an
application development environment featuring a comprehensive, extensible
application framework and application editors implemented in a completely
visual, object-oriented language.

-  Quasar Knowledge Systems announced the availability in the second
quarter of 1994 of Smalltalk Agents for Power Macintosh a dynamic tool for
authoring applications and agents using Smalltalk. For more information,
contact Quasar Knowledge Systems, Inc. at 9818 Parkwood Drive, Bethesda,
MD 20814. (301) 530-4853.

-  Sierra Software Innovations announced the availability within sixty days
of Inside Out II, a multi-user relational database engine for use with
Pascal and C/C++. For more information, contact Sierra Software
Innovations at 923 Tahoe Blvd., Suite 102, Incline Village, NV 89451.
(702) 832-0300.

-  Symantec, as part of its announcement of Symantec C++ 7.0, announced the
immediate availability of the Power Macintosh cross development kit.  The
Power Macintosh cross development kit allows developers to port their
Symantec C++ applications to Power Macintosh. For more information contact
Symantec Corporation, 10201 Torre Avenue, Cupertino, CA 95014 (408)
253-9600

Developers of Power Macintosh tools expressed excitement at the potential
of the Power Macintosh.

"The new Power Macintosh represents a quantum leap in processing power and
our new compiler architecture was designed specifically for RISC
processors and advanced architectures such as this incredible machine,"
said Greg Galanos, president and CEO of Metrowerks.

According to David Simmons, president of Quasar Knowledge Systems:
"SmalltalkAgents supports the creation of sophisticated applications and
agents that are capable of supporting multiple processes and threads
simultaneously.  Power Macintosh will enable SmalltalkAgents developers to
take advantage of these features to create new classes of products that
work intelligently to enable ubiquitous collaborative and agent
applications and services."

Over time, Apple expects the range of Power Macintosh developer tools to
expand, as additional vendors deliver products that will allow software
developers to use the enormous processing power of the Power Macintosh for
new, creative applications and breakthrough solutions.

Macintosh on RISC SDK Pricing, Availability

The Macintosh on RISC SDK is available from Apple Programmers and
Developers' Association (APDA). In the US the SDK is priced at US$399.00.
Pricing will vary overseas.  Apple also announced that the Macintosh on
RISC SDK will be available as part of Apple' E-T-O--Essentials, Tools,
Objects product starting with the next issue.  International customers
should contact their local Apple or APDA  office for details of local
pricing and availability.  Apple plans that customers purchasing the SDK
will receive the current beta release and any interim releases up to and
including the final release.  In addition to the Macintosh on RISC SDK,
APDA carries a number of the third-party Power Macintosh tools listed
above.  For more information, contact APDA.

APDA offers convenient worldwide access to hundreds of Apple and
third-party development tools, resources, and information for anyone
interested in developing applications on Apple computer platforms. For a
free copy of the APDA Tools Catalog, call 1-800-282-2732 (US.), 1-800-637
0029 (Canada), or (716) 871-6555 (International).

Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)
develops, manufactures and markets personal computer, server, and personal
interactive electronic systems for use in business, education, the home,
science, engineering and government.  A recognized pioneer and innovator
in the information industry, Apple does business in more than 120
countries.

Apple Computer Inc, 20525 Mariana Ave, Cupertino, CA 95014
408-996-1010

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