From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 19 12:26:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25820 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 12:26:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from couatl.uchicago.edu (couatl.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25781 for ; Tue, 19 May 1998 12:26:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfarrell@couatl.uchicago.edu) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by couatl.uchicago.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16631; Tue, 19 May 1998 14:26:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sfarrell) To: Sue Blake Cc: Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Apple to drop Rhapsody? References: <19980519104229.M427@freebie.lemis.com> <19980519200115.02641@welearn.com.au> From: stephen farrell Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 19 May 1998 14:26:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sue Blake's message of "Tue, 19 May 1998 20:01:15 +1000" Message-ID: <87vhr2hxk9.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu> Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.9/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sue Blake 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