Apple and Digitool Ship Macintosh Common Lisp 3.0

MACWORLD, Boston--August 8, 1995--Apple Computer, Inc. and Digitool, Inc.
today announced availability of the Macintosh Common Lisp (MCL) 3.0
programming language, and associated products addressing the needs of MCL
developers. An enhanced version for Motorola 680X0-based Apple Macintosh
computers, MCL 3.0 is the first product resulting from last November's
technology development agreement between Apple and Digitool. MCL 3.0 is
the first milestone leading to Digitool's Power Macintosh native version,
expected in early 1996.

"As a result of a joint effort between Apple and Digitool, MCL 3.0
exemplifies the spirit of cooperation that Apple fosters with third-party
vendors to provide breakthrough tools for the developer community," said
Peter Christy, senior director of Apple's Development Products Group. "We
are committed to delivering the tools Macintosh developers need, whether
those tools come from Apple, or another vendor."

"We have made tremendous progress over the past six months with MCL on both
technical and informational fronts," said Hazem Sayed, president of
Digitool, Inc. "The MCL user community is now as vigorous as ever and
there is increased awareness on the part of developers in general of the
many advantages this dynamic development environment offers. With the
upcoming native PowerPC implementation, the future of development choices
for the Macintosh looks bright, indeed."

Common Lisp is an advanced programming language widely used in industry,
education and research. Recognized by developers as a premier
implementation of Common Lisp for personal computers, MCL's performance is
comparable to Lisp running on high-end workstations. MCL 3.0 is the first
MCL version to support concurrently running multiple processes within a
program. An object-oriented dynamic language, MCL is ideally suited for
quick application prototyping and provides high-level access to the
Macintosh user interface, as well as a delivery environment for
intelligent applications.

With MCL 3.0, Apple and Digitool are responding to key customer needs for
smaller deliverable applications, an MCL runtime compiler and more
affordable pricing. MCL 3.0 creates fully customized applications called
Lisp Development Systems, which may be distributed to other MCL users in a
site-license agreement, or packaged with copies of MCL for commercial
distribution.

In addition, freely distributable, standalone applications may be produced
with MCL Redistribution Kits. Through a special application generator
utility, users may use MCL's Redistribution Kit to create distributable
applications of reduced disk footprint; standalone applications now can
occupy 450K to 900K less disk space than their Lisp Development System
counterparts produced in MCL 3.0.

MCL 3.0 is designed to meet the demands of developers who require extensive
network and multithreading interfaces. World Wide Web site development is
one example of an application that takes advantage of MCL's strengths. The
Artificial Intelligence Lab at M.I.T. successfully used MCL 3.0 for the
Macintosh port of CL-HTTP, the lab's WWW server, originally developed on
Symbolics computers for government applications.

"We see the Mac port of CL-HTTP as the first step towards much wider public
access, via MCL, to tools used for developing and deploying several major
information highway applications," said John Mallery, research scientist,
M.I.T. AI Lab. "Web applications are becoming more sophisticated as they
endeavor to help people more intelligently manage floods of information
unleashed by the current revolution in global computer networks. Better
programming tools like MCL are going to separate the winners from the
also-rans."

Configurations

MCL 3.0

This includes a CD-ROM complete with user-contributed code (tools,
applications and tutorials), developer tools provided by Apple, and
digital versions of all documentation "Getting Started with MCL," "MCL
Reference," and "Supplement to MCL Reference." Hard copy documentation is
also included.

MCL 3.0 Champion Edition

Identical in software content and capability to MCL 3.0, this value-priced
edition is available to individuals and students who use MCL at home, in
companies or in universities.

MCL 3.0 Redistribution Kit (beta release)

This includes a utility, called MCL-AppGen, for creating MCL Distributable
Applications with a reduced disk footprint, and a license to distribute an
unlimited number of these applications, royalty free.

MCL Compiler Redistribution Kit (beta release)

For use when shipping applications (such as scriptable Computer Aided
Design packages and new programming languages) that call the MCL compiler
at runtime, this kit includes both the MCL compiler as a separate module
and a license to incorporate it in an unlimited number of MCL
Distributable Applications, royalty free.

Pricing and Availability

MCL Version 3.0 is now available to companies and educational institutions
for U.S. $595 and U.S. $475, respectively, through APDA, Apple's source
for development tools and related programming products. MCL 3.0 is also
available to individuals and students for U.S. $295 and U.S. $135,
respectively, from Digitool. Both APDA and Digitool are distributing the
MCL Compiler Redistribution Kit for U.S. $2000, and the MCL Redistribution
Kit for U.S. $400, with discounts for educational customers and students.
Upgrades to MCL 3.0 are available for current users from both
organizations for U.S. $135 (commercial users), U.S. $108 (educational
institutions and personal users) and U.S. $75 (student users).

Digitool, based in Cambridge, MA, is a software development company formed
by the principals of Paradigm Software, Inc. and staffed by former
employees of Apple's MCL development team.

Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized pioneer and innovator in the information
industry, creates powerful solutions based on easy-to-use personal
computers, servers, peripherals, software, online services, and personal
digital assistants. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple (NASDAQ:
AAPL) develops, manufactures, licenses and markets products, technologies
and services for the business, education, consumer, scientific &
engineering and government markets in over 140 countries.

Customer Information Contact: ADPA by telephone in the U.S. at
(800)282-2732, in Canada at (800)637-0029 or internationally at
(716)871-6555. Digitool may be contacted by telephone at (617)441-5000 or
by email at "orders@digitool.com." Additional MCL 3.0 product information
is available on Apple and Digitool's WWW home pages:

Apple: http://www.apple.com/ (and) Digitool: http://www.digitool.com/.

Apple Computer Inc
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
408-996-1010
 
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