Jun 94 Newsbits
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>replyPtrh By Scott T Boyd, Editor>replyPtr Native PowerPC Frontier>replyPtr $LUserLand Software has announced and released a new version of Frontier 3.0,>replyPtr Xcompatible with the Power Macintosh product line. Frontier is one of the first “native>replyPtr Omode” applications to take advantage of the substantial new performance made possible>replyPtr Qby the PowerPC chip. Scripts run up to eight times faster on a PowerPC than they>replyPtr would on a non-RISC processor.>replyPtr $R“We believe this is a significant release because scripts now run at performance>replyPtr„ Nlevels comparable with compiled C applications on earlier processors,” said UserLand>replyPtrÔ IPresident and CEO David M. Winer. “Interpretive systems like Frontier gain>replyPtrCustomGetFile Uenormously from conversion to native mode,” he continued. Frontier Threads and the>replyPtr Component Manager.>replyPtr $QThe new release of Frontier, version 3.0.2, is available immediately. Registered>replyPtr LFrontier 3.0 users can purchase the native mode application for $139 in the U.S. and>fixBtnName+ LCanada, $159 elsewhere. The suggested retail price of Frontier 3.0 is $495.>fixBtnNameAH/Compuserve Mail Links To MS-Mail And PowerTalk>replyPtr $KCompuServe announced two extensions for CompuServe members using Microsoft>replyPtr RMail and PowerTalk programs. The extensions provide access to CompuServe Mail and>fixBtnNamej 4all of the services it connects to from those applications.>fixBtnNamev$MUsers can exchange messages with complete retention of their full multimedia>replyPtr Rmessage structure when communicating with others using a compatible package. For>fixBtnName Qexample, if a Microsoft Mail user creates a message incorporating an OLE object and>replyPtr Useveral attachments, the user receiving the message will see it as exactly as it was>replyPtr Wsent. The same native, full-fidelity, message transfer is also available to PowerTalk>replyPtr *users when communicating with each other.>fixBtnName $IBoth extensions feature the same connect scripting language supported by>replyPtr DCompuServe Information Manager user interface software, and customizable settings>fixBtnName Sso email can be accessed from home, work or remote locations. Also included is the>replyPtr Ncapability to send and receive messages on demand, at pre-set times or when a>fixBtnName Ispecified number of messages are waiting to be sent from the out-basket.>replyPtr $LBoth extensions are downloadable from the GO CISSOFT area on CompuServe forapplication R$5.00 each, with no connect rate charged. The fee is offset by a $5.00 CompuServeapplication ,usage credit for each extension downloaded.application(v#Automated Macintosh stress testing>replyPtr9$JQC™, an automated test tool, can quickly isolate problems in application softwareapplicationE Jand code resources that would otherwise randomly crash or hang under differentapplicationQ SMacintosh configurations. These tests can be performed by non-technical personnel>replyPtr] Rwith little or no knowledge of Macintosh programming. Software engineers can takeapplicationi Wadvantage of a custom API to achieve pin
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