The big news this week involves licensing: Apple gets Java from Sun Microsystems and announces plans to integrate it into the Mac OS, and IBM gets the Mac OS from Apple. Also in this issue, information on Power Computing's new high-speed Macs, Tonya takes a look at the new HTML authoring tool PageSpinner, and Sean Peisert reviews a collection of tools almost everyone has to use: text editors.

Topics:

• MailBITS/06-May-96
• Apple Licenses Java
• PageSpinner Spins Into View
• Text Editors - Getting Your ASCII In Gear

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