Date: 19 May 1998 14:26:14 -0500 From: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Apple to drop Rhapsody? Message-ID: <87vhr2hxk9.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: Sue Blake's message of "Tue, 19 May 1998 20:01:15 %2B1000" References: <19980519104229.M427@freebie.lemis.com> <19980519200115.02641@welearn.com.au>
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Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> writes: > lot of mail when -chat-advocacy dupes piled up) they're talking about > this MacOS X. I haven't yet worked out what is new apart from the name. The macweek article I read suggested that what they're doing is porting the macos api's to mach and deemphasizing/dropping (?) the openstep/obj c stuff. This way they get the mach underpinnings and old mac applications just need a recompile and a few minor changes (they trimmed the api somewhat). As long as tevanian is vp of technology, i doubt mach will dissappear from their strategy (grep for Tevanian in /sys/vm). Also, as long as it's based on mach, then they'll probably keep the bsd4.4 compatibility--i read somewhere mach3.0, so that might mean something like a bsd server like lites--at least as an add-on. They just seem to be staying away from the "U" word, probably since it wasn't popular amongst most mac ppl. -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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