Bristol Technology Inc. Announces Wind/U 4.1.RIDGEFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 2, 1997-- ActiveX Template Library and OpenGL Graphics Support Added 2-5X Performance Gains Bristol Technology Inc. today announced Wind/U(R) 4.1, the latest release of the company's award-winning cross-platform development software. Wind/U 4.1 includes new support for ActiveX Template Library (ATL (Active Template Library) A set of software routines from Microsoft that provide the basic framework for creating ActiveX and COM objects. Stemming from the standard template library (STL) that comes with C++ compilers, ATL includes an object wizard that sets up ) and OpenGL, and contains dramatic performance gains in dialog support. Also included in this release is support for Stingray stingray: see ray. stingray or whip-tailed ray Any of various species (family Dasyatidae) of rays noted for their slender, whiplike tail with barbed, usually venomous spines. Software's Objective Grid and Objective Toolkit MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class) An application framework for writing Microsoft C/C++ and Visual C++ applications. See application framework. MFC - Microsoft Foundation Class components on UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). . Wind/U is the leading cross-platform development tool, with over 1,000 Wind/U development seats installed. Using Wind/U 4.1, developers can write their applications on Windows 95 or Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , and deploy them on the range of platforms found across the enterprise, including Windows, UNIX, OpenVMS, and OS/390. "Bristol has been in the business of supporting Microsoft development standards on UNIX and other non-Windows platforms for over five years," said Keith Blackwell, president of Bristol Technology. "This 4.1 release adds support for important graphics and ActiveX standards that developers are increasingly adopting." "We are thrilled with the performance gains in Wind/U 4.1," said Derek Henninger, vice president of engineering at Persistence Software. "Because of Wind/U, we're able to introduce our Persistence Live Object Builder product in the UNIX market with the same high performance features as our Windows product." Powerful, Fast Cross-Platform Development Tool Wind/U 4.1 offers cross-platform developers a variety of new features and performance gains to produce powerful, fast applications for all the platforms in the enterprise from a single Win32 source code base. Wind/U 4.1 benefits include: - Proven Interoperability Wind/U 4.1 expands Wind/U's support for ActiveX and the Component Object Model (COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. ), the most widely used component technology in the world, with support for the ActiveX Template Library (ATL). This ATL support now allows developers to create light weight, cross-platform ActiveX controls. - Support for Development Standards Wind/U supports Microsoft's Win32, ActiveX and COM standards on UNIX and OpenVMS platforms. Version 4.1 now adds support for OpenGL, the new standard for programming graphics applications, and the WGL WGL - Waveform Generation Language functions required by OpenGL for Windows. Wind/U 4.1 allows OpenGL applications developed on Windows platforms direct access to Silicon Graphics' and Sun's optimized OpenGL implementations. - Blazing Native Speed The performance improvements in Wind/U 4.1 make dialog creation 2-5 times faster. The larger the dialogs in an application, the more significant the gain. Wind/U graphics performance is indistinguishable from native speed, and now dialog performance exceeds the best native speed, too. - Open Technology for Internet and Server Applications 1. Extended Service APIs: Wind/U 4.1 supports Win32 services on Solaris, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , and AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , which run independent of user logins and can be configured to run as a particular user, to start on demand or at system startup, and to shutdown or pause. 2. Improved Thread Support: Wind/U 4.1 supports WinSock for use in multithreaded multithreaded - multithreading applications on Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. , Digital UNIX See Tru64 Unix. , and Digital OpenVMS. 3. Extended WinInet APIs on Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX platforms. 4. Extended VBScript on Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX platforms. Stingray Software's Objective Grid and Objective Toolkit Supported Wind/U 4.1 supports the latest release of Stingray Software's MFC components, Objective Grid 5 and Objective Toolkit 5. Now Wind/U customers can easily leverage these sophisticated custom controls used in their Windows application in their UNIX version. "The cross-platform development enabled by Bristol's Wind/U creates the opportunity for developers to access our MFC extensions and grid component on UNIX platforms," said Scot Wingo, president of Stingray Software Inc. "Because Objective Grid and Objective Toolkit are full-source, MFC-based products, our customers who use Wind/U are able to port to UNIX platforms quickly and easily." Pricing and Availability Wind/U 4.1 runs on SunOS and Solaris, HP-UX, Digital UNIX, Digital OpenVMS, AIX, and IRIX workstations. The price is $12,000 and will be available on Halloween, October 31. Ridgefield, Conn.-based Bristol Technology Inc. develops, markets, and supports the Wind/U family of Windows and UNIX cross-platform development products. Founded in 1991, the company has grown at an average annual rate of 75 percent. In addition to Wind/U, its products include HyperHelp(TM), software for creating UNIX-based on-line help systems with WinHelp functionality; Xprinter(TM), software for adding sophisticated printing capabilities to UNIX-based applications; and Jprinter(TM), a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Pronounced "wiz-ee-wig." It refers to displaying text and graphics on screen the same as they will print on paper or display on a Web page. network printing system for Java. For more information, please visit Bristol's home page: http://www.bristol.com. (c) 1997 Bristol Technology Inc. Bristol Technology and Wind/U are registered trademarks, and HyperHelp, Xprinter, and Jprinter are trademarks of Bristol Technology Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Bristol Technology Inc. Jean Blackwell, 203/438-6969 JeanB@bristol.com |
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