From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 20 12:27:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from winston.freebsd.org (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C553037B402; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:27:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from winston.freebsd.org (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1KKQNV30738; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:26:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@winston.freebsd.org) To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: "Crist J. Clark" , chat@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interesting Comment about Mac OS X In-Reply-To: Message from Dag-Erling Smorgrav of "20 Feb 2002 12:39:47 +0100." Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:26:23 -0800 Message-ID: <30734.1014236783@winston.freebsd.org> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Cocoa, the Objective-C and Java UI library of choice, is based on NeXTStep/OpenStep with a lot of additional enhancements for multimedia content delivery (which, as I understand it, NeXT was a little thin on). The actual 2D/window system layer, Quartz, is an entirely new creation which is based on PDF rather than NeXT's Display Postscript model. - Jordan > "Crist J. Clark" writes: > > Interesting remark in the last sentence I quote. I'm sure there are > > elements of NeXt in there, but I don't think that statement is > > accurate. Last I knew, Mac OS X was primarily BSD-based, specifically, > > FreeBSD. > > A sizeable portion of the GUI layer is based on NeXT. I don't know > how much exactly, but I imagine Jordan does. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message