Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:35:26 -0800 From: "Jonathan Graehl" <jonathan@graehl.org> To: "Garance A Drosihn" <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: "freebsd-Arch" <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: configuration files, XML, Mac OS X release Message-ID: <NCBBLOALCKKINBNNEDDLAECLDNAA.jonathan@graehl.org> In-Reply-To: <p05010401b6e555e38f12@[128.113.24.47]>
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> At 10:35 AM -0800 3/26/01, Jonathan Graehl wrote: > > > Applications query the same "defaults database" for their > >> preferences. So you could type a 'defaults' command in > >> one window, and the application will see that the next > >> time it checks (probably the next time the application > >> is started). No need to log out and back in. > > > >... like the Windows Registry ;) (duck) > > No. More like the defaults database on nextstep, which was > running about five years before Windows95 saw the light of > day. > > It's always amusing when people claim MacOS 10 is stealing > something from Windows, when those very things existed in > NeXTSTEP before Windows was shipping. > > But now we have digressed... I'm asking, since I'm familiar with Windows but not NeXTSTEP, if it is the same concept, or, if not, what the differences are. My point was not at all "Windows was first" - experience has shown that to be unlikely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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