Mainsoft ships MainWin XDE 1.4; Windows-to-UNIX Cross-Platform Development support for MFC 4.0, Winsock, and CDE.CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 1996--Mainsoft Corporation, provider of cross-platform development tools with true Windows API (application programming interface) compliance, began shipping MainWin XDE (eXtended Development Environment) 1.4 with new strategic features on May 15. MainWin XDE 1.4 includes MFC 4.0, Winsock, CDE (1) (Computer Desktop Encyclopedia) What you are reading at this very moment. See About this product. (2) (Common Desktop Environment) A user interface for desktop computing from The Open Group. (Common Desktop Environment), support for MainWin Test 3.0, and new Win95 Common Controls. MainWin release 1.4 also provides continuing support of MFC 3.0 for developers not using MFC 4.0. MainWin XDE maximizes a software developer's effectiveness by enabling original Win32 and MFC source code, resource files and help files to be re-hosted across all major 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). platforms. MainWin XDE is a component of MainWin Studio, the complete set of cross-platform development tools that enable a software developer to extend an application written to the Microsoft Windows API onto all major UNIX platforms. Developer pricing is per user, per UNIX platform, and starts at $5,000. New Features and Support MainWin XDE 1.4 with Microsoft's MFC 4.0 offers developers even more sophisticated tools for Windows programming, adding support for new Win95 Common Controls, improved MFC DLL (Dynamically Linked Library (library) Dynamically Linked Library - (DLL) A library which is linked to application programs when they are loaded or run rather than as the final phase of compilation. This means that the same block of library code can be shared between several tasks rather than each task ) support, and support for additional MFC classes. Winsock, the Windows programming API for networking, is a superset of the BSD sockets library for TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. applications with extensions to support the asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. , message based programming model used in the Windows API. Mainsoft's MainWin 1.4 supports Winsock 1.1 including MFC support, and Windows Winsock help files, as well as some NT extensions. MainWin XDE 1.4 comes to market with versions of MFC and Winsock for UNIX validated with Microsoft's own test suites, through the use of MainWin Test (see related announcement). With more than 2,500 comparisons in 100 test cases, Mainsoft can validate an unsurpassed quality level. MainWin XDE 1.4 also offers full support of CDE (Common Desktop Environment) and the dtwm Windows Manager on all supported UNIX platforms. Supported Platforms Current platforms include 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. 10 and IBM AIX 4, HP-UX 9 and AIX 3.2, SunOS 4, Solaris 2 (SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill and Intel), DEC Alpha, Digital UNIX, and SGI 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. . About Mainsoft Mainsoft Corporation provides software developers the only complete Windows-based cross-platform development environment available today. Mainsoft's MainWin Studio leverages multiple source code licenses from Microsoft to address the major challenges of cross-platform development, offering Microsoft solutions for testing, version control, on-line documentation and help as well as the Windows API on the major UNIX platforms. Mainsoft Corporation headquarters is located at 1270 Oakmead Parkway, Ste. 310, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. Telephone: 408/774-3400. Fax: 408/774-3404. Email: info@mainsoft.com. World Wide Web: www.mainsoft.com. -0- Note to Editors: MainWin is a registered trademark and Mainsoft is a trademark of Mainsoft Corporation. All other brands and product names appearing in this release are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Mainsoft Corp. Celeste Celeste is a woman's first name. Celeste may also refer to: in Music
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