ScriptX (see "Kaleida Hopes that X Marks the [Multimedia] Spot," Microbytes, September 1992 BYTE)
Kaleida (Mountain View, CA), the joint multimedia software company formed by IBM and Apple, is looking at September for the release of software development kits based on ScriptX, the company's object-oriented programming language for creating multimedia titles. The company says over 200 sites are currently working with prerelease versions of ScriptX.
The development kits will include Kaleida Media Player run-time engines that will enable software titles written in ScriptX to play on both Mac and Windows platforms. The company says it will eventually release run-time engines for OS/2, Power Macs, and Unix.
The unreleased COS (Consumer Operating System) and Malibu, a graphics acceleration and memory-control chip, are being "transitioned out of the company," according to Kaleida sp
okeswoman Diane Samples. COS and Malibu were part of an early PowerPC-based, interactive TV Hardware Reference Platform that Kaleida designed for its developer partners.
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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