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To: J R KARY who wrote (12550)	5/4/1998 8:44:00 PM
From: Adam Nash	Respond to of 213177

>" They are hiring a lot of engineers for Mac OS 2000 right now..."< Adam , also noticed D. Crabb mentioned "OS 2000" in a earlier posted link and wonder if you would tell us you thoughts on this new OS . Also what particular language skill sets are desirable in hiring new OS 2000 engineers and so on . Thanks, Jim K. This isn't a big secret - you can learn a surprising amount by perusing the job listings on the Apple website, and in the SJ Mercury. :) Neat trick if you want to find out what projects at companies are getting really funded. There seems to be nothing new for Mac OS 2000 from the "engineer qualifications" list. The Mac OS is largely implemented in C, so that is clearly where you need the strongest base. However, many Control Panels, small apps, Finder, have pieces that are C++ based. A smattering of Pascal is important if you really want to be adept at understanding some of the historical reasoning in the MacOS. Of course, if you want to work on Java, you need to know that too :) System engineering can be fairly low-level, so you need to understand assembly some. PowerPC is a fairly RISC-y instruction set. :) However, the Mac OS is so big, there are pieces that suit different talents.