April 2000: You've Got To Have It

Welcome back to Memory Protection! This month we wise up, buy some old macs and finally talk definitively about what we have for the last year been talking about only speculatively. We unearth more iMac ripoffs, talk about Microsoft more than normal and get our fingers stinky as we try out Mac OS 9 for the first time in almost 20 years.

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WWDC Keynote Presenter History: * 1996 - Gil Amelio * 1997-2008 - Steve Jobs * 2009 - PowerPhil Schiller * 2010 - 2011 - Steve Jobs * 2012 - Current - Tim Cook

• Microsoft Found To Be In Violation Of Sherman Antitrust Act
  • MS abused its power as a monopoly

• Something Big Is Brewing For The WWDC

• Mac OS 9 News:
  • OS 9.0.4 Released - available via the software update panel
  • Lots of bugfixes
  • People ran into trouble with software update
    • Apparently you needed to update your software update control panel in order to get it to work - It doesn’t appear that the software update control panel update was available through software update.

• Apple Announces Press Conference With Matrox & Pinnacle Systems

• Matrox Announces Support For Macs They announce the Matrox RTMac Video Card - (I owned this -M)

• Apple acquires Astarte - which they will use to produce iDVD & DVD Studio Pro in the near future
  • Astarte: Ancient Deity

• Netscape unveils Netscape 6.0

• MS Rejects Web Standards Project Guidelines in upcoming Windows release of IE5.5 - Leaving the Mac version more Web Standards compliant - Zeldman is pissed

• A comparison of the differences among current web browsers

• Apple Q2 Earnings Reports -
  • Net profit of $233 million
  • Compared to $135 million last year
  • Revenue was $1.94 billion up 27% from last year
  • Apple made $75 million from the sale of ARM holding shares

• Hey look! Another iMac knockoff - the FishPC

• Quicktime is updated to 4.1.2, adds several new features
  • Better streaming compatibility
  • Windows 2000 compatibility
  • No new channels

• The Sims is coming to Mac

• This is cool - Pocket EPC System

Mac OS 9 First Impressions * These are the Macs we are using * The Macintosh Repository * NanoRaptor Twitter Account

• Josh:
  • Game: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
• Matt:
  • Game: Star Wars: Episode One Racer (For the SEGA Dreamcast)