Effective with the May 14, 1998, Apple Confidential Price Lists, the Macintosh Application Environment (MAE), Part Number 449000U, has been discontinued. This decision has been reached as part of Apple's continuing efforts to focus all our software development resources on extending the Mac OS.
MAE 3.0.4 software provides a Macintosh system 7.5.3 environment in an X Window. It enables off-the-shelf Macintosh applications to run on a UNIX workstation. It supports a variety of releases of HP-UX and Solaris Operating System on the following models of HP and Sun workstations:
- Sun SPARC 2, 5, 10, and UltraSparc workstations running Solaris 2.4 to 2.6
- HP 9000 series 700 workstations running HP-UX 9.0.x, HP-UX 10.10, 10.20 and 10.30 X Window System version 11, release 5
MAE does not support any other hardware platforms. Additionally, MAE 3.0.4 will not run PowerPC-only applications and will therefore not support some of the recently introduced Macintosh applications.
Apple is committed to working with its customers to ensure a smooth transition to Mac OS-based products, and for a limited time will continue to provide up-and-running support for the installed base of MAE users. Any current MAE customer that has not yet received a MAE key code or needs a replacement key code can call Apple Computer at 1-800-SOS-APPL, extension 943. Customers outside the U.S. should contact their local support centers to request the keys.
For replacement solutions, former MAE users should consider a third-party solution called the "G3 UNIX Workstation." This product uses the Macintosh G3 as the basis for running a full-service UNIX environment including, X-Windows, NIS, NIS+, NFS and OpenGL support along with C, C++ and FORTRAN compilers. Performance of the G3 UNIX Workstation exceeds that of computers costing more than twice as much. There is also a PowerBook version of this solution which boasts the only true portable UNIX solution including power management. The G3 UNIX Workstation and PowerBook are also capable of running Windows 3.1, 95 or NT at high-end Pentium speeds simultaneously with UNIX and the Mac OS. For more information on these products see the Joint Solutions web site at
http://www.jointsolutions.com/g3/ or for full system integration support contact FGM at 1-800-346-1705,
http://www.fgm.com.
Effective with the distribution of this message, the MAE-ANNOUNCE mailing list will be discontinued. The MAE-USERS mailing list will continue to operate as long as the list is useful to our MAE users.