Free On-line Dictionary of Computing:
yellow box
Apple Computer, Inc.
's new development
platform
for building
desktop
,
server
, and web
applications. Yellow Box is a rich
object-oriented
environment that is tightly integrated with
Java
and allows
you to deploy applications across five platforms:
Rhapsody
,
Rhapsody for Intel,
Windows 95
,
Windows NT
, and
Mac OS
.
All Yellow Box-based products are an evolution of
OpenStep
-
an operating system-independent, object-oriented application
platform from NeXT.
Integrating the cross-platform robustness of OpenStep with
Apple's market-leading digital media and graphics technologies
will differentiate the Yellow Box from other development
platforms.
"Yellow Box for Windows" is the {run-time} software
(implemented as dynamically linked libraries) that allows
Yellow Box
applications to run under
Windows 95
and
Windows NT
. Applications that use it will feature a full
native Windows user interface.
http://wais.sensei.com.au/macarc/appdir/1996/0077.html
.
(1997-10-15)
