Connectix

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article or the following section is not adequately provided with supporting documents ( e.g. individual evidence ). Information without sufficient evidence could be removed soon. Please help Wikipedia by researching the information and including good evidence.
Connectix Corporation

logo
legal form Corporation
founding 1988
resolution 2003
Seat San Mateo , California , USA
management
Branch Software development

Connectix Corporation was a manufacturer of software and hardware, primarily for Apple computers . The company was founded in October 1988 by Jon Garber . Other important company members were Bonnie Fought , Eric Traut and Roy McDonald . McDonald was still CEO and President when Connectix finally closed in August 2003 and sold to Microsoft.

Important products

  • Virtual , the original flagship that introduced virtual memory in the Macintosh OS a few years before Apple (in System 7); Virtual also ran on many accelerator cards for the original Mac / Mac Plus / Mac SE line where virtual memory was not supported by Apple.
  • MODE32 software that expanded Mac memory management to 32-bit in response to Mac buyers asking to know why their 32-bit 68020 microprocessors couldn't access more than 8 megabytes of RAM. This software was later sold to Apple.
  • MAXIMA , a RAM disk utility, was better than the one later shipped with the Mac OS, because the contents could be restored after a restart and booted from the RAM disk .
  • RAM Doubler , the first virtual memory compression product; It sold very well for many years, but became obsolete after a few years as Apple improved its virtual memory management and RAM prices fell.
  • Ram Doubler for Windows , a product for Windows 3.1x that increased system resource memory by using a compression technique. This allowed the execution of more applications or made it easier to execute resource-hungry software and stabilized the system overall, since system resource storage was a permanent problem in the 16-bit Windows versions. The problem was defused by Microsoft with a trick in another way with Windows 9x , but it was only corrected in Windows NT .
  • Speed ​​Doubler combined an expanded disk cache , a better Finder copy tool , and a dynamically recompiled 68K-to-PowerPC emulator that was faster than the emulators that Apple shipped with the PowerPC Macs. It was ultimately outdated because applications available only for 68k processors became rare and the Mac OS code was improved.
  • Quickcam Webcams - Originally the sole design of Jon Garber; he wanted to call it the 'Mac Camera' but marketing prohibited it as it saw the possibility of it becoming a cross-platform product. In fact, 14 months later it was to become the second Connectix product for Windows ( Mac QuickCam was sold from August 1994, RAM Doubler for Windows from April 1995 and QuickCam for Windows from October 1995). The hardware division was later sold to Logitech .
  • Virtual Game Station , PlayStation - emulation . The software was sold to Sony after they were unsuccessful in litigation and sales then stopped immediately.
  • Virtual PC - emulation software ( x86 -based PC) for PowerPC-based Macintosh computers. Developments resulting from this: the virtualization software Virtual PC and Virtual Server for Windows . The software was further developed after the takeover by Microsoft . The Mac version was discontinued under Microsoft after the switch from PowerPC to Intel-based Macs.

history

With the sale of the virtual PC development and its technical support, a large part of the staff was transferred to Microsoft . The Macintosh products , including DoubleTalk , CopyAgent, and RAM Doubler , have been discontinued.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short Take: Logitech to buy QuickCam. Accessed December 2, 2019 .