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Jolt Awards - 1990 Winners

Books

JOLT WINNER:

  • "Annotated C++ Reference Manual," by Margaret Ellis and Bjarne Stroustrup (Addison Wesley Publishing Co.).

PRODUCTIVITY AWARDS

  • "The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design," Edited by Brenda Laurel (Addison Wesley Publishing Co.).
  • "Programming Windows, 2nd Ed.," by Charles Petzold (Microsoft Press).
  • "Turbo C++ DiskTutor," by Greg Voss and Paul Chui (Osborne McGraw-Hill).

Special

JOLT WINNER

  • Windows 3.0, by Microsoft Corp.

PRODUCTIVITY AWARDS

  • DOS Protected-Mode Interface Standard, by the DPMI Committee
  • DR DOS 5.0, by Digital Research Inc.
  • Open Desktop 1.0, by The Santa Cruz Operation
  • Architech Series 2.2, by Interactive Systems
  • User Interface Toolkit for BASIC Professional Development System 7.0, by Microsoft Corp.
  • Turbo Vision for Turbo Pascal 6.0, by Borland Int'l
  • ANSI C, by the ANSI X3J11 Technical Committee on the C Programming Language

Utilities (formerly "Tools")

JOLT WINNER:

  • Bounds-Checker 1.11, by Nu-Mega Technologies Inc.

PRODUCTIVITY AWARDS:

  • AM/ST 3.3, by SoftPert Systems
  • CodeCheck 2.0, by Abraxas Software Inc.
  • Install 3.05, by Knowledge Dynamics Corp.
  • PC-Metric C++ 2.0, by SET Laboratories Inc.
  • Whitewater Resource Toolkit, by the Whitewater Group
  • Sage Professional Editor 1.1, by Sage Software Inc.
  • PC-lint 386 4.0, by Gimpel Software

Design & Management Tools (formerly "CASE")

JOLT WINNER:

  • TeamWork 3.1, by Cadre Technologies

PRODUCTIVITY AWARDS:

  • EasyCASE Professional 2.0, by Evergreen CASE Tools Inc.
  • TurboCASE 2.12, by StructSoft Inc.

Special (formerly "Environments")

JOLT WINNER:

  • NeXTstep Extended Edition 2.0, NeXT Computer Inc.

PRODUCTIVITY AWARDS:

  • MacApp 2.0, by Apple Computer
  • Objectworks/Smalltalk 4.0, by ParcPlace Systems
  • Saber-C 3.0, by Saber Software, Inc.

Libraries

JOLT WINNERS:

  • Zinc Interface Library 1.0, by Zinc Software Inc.
  • Spontanious Assembly 2.0, by Base Two Development
  • Object Professional 1.0, by TurboPower Software

PRODUCTIVITY AWARDS:

  • db_Vista III for Windows 3.0, by Raima Corp.
  • MacApp 2.0 Goodies Disks, Vol. 1, by MacApp Developers Association
  • Windows 3.0 Software Development Kit, by Microsoft Corp.

Languages and Development Environments

JOLT WINNERS:

  • Turbo C++ Professional 1.0, by Borland Int'l
  • Watcom C 8.0, by Watcom Systems

PRODUCTIVITY AWARDS:

  • Microsoft C 6.0a, by Microsoft Corp.
  • Actor 3.0, by The Whitewater Group
  • Glockenspiel C++ 2.0, by ImageSoft Inc.
  • Smalltalk/V PM 1.1, by Digitalk Inc.
  • ToolBook Software Construction Set 1.0, by Asymetrix Corp.

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