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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


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