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Kaleida Labs was a company founded by IBM and Apple Computer in 1991 as part of their AIM alliance. The company was to create a new cross-platform multimedia programming language called ScriptX which was to be a way for developers to harness the power of the AIM alliance's new line of PowerPC desktop computers. Its initial charter was also to work on set-top box hardware and software. Kaleida was formed at the same time as Taligent, another joint venture intended to create a new operating system for the computers.
ScriptX shipped in 1994 for Windows 3.1 and for Apple's System 7. Versions had been announced for OS/2 and the new PReP line of computers, but were never released. It found few customers; it is not known if any commercial products ever shipped that were created with ScriptX.
Kaleida was closed down in 1995. At the time, Apple apparently offered jobs to about two-thirds of the staff.
External links
ScriptX overview page (http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lang/scriptx/scriptx.html)
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