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To: rhet0ric who wrote (13394)5/11/1998 4:53:00 PM
From: Alomex  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 213177
 
The way I see it, they are getting rid of the 2000 heavily screwed up API calls that made Copland impossible.

It has been clear for a long time that the internal design of the Apple system was severely dysfunctional. Gasse developed BeOS, Amelio bought Rhapsody.

Developers killed Rhapsody by not developing for it, so Apple decided to make it official (all $400 million worth) pick up the pieces and move MacOS forward.

They dropped the crappy APIs, or crAPIs, and left the other 6000 in there. Once you no longer have absolute addresses and non-reentrant code in your crAPIs you can have real virtual memory and multitasking.

And that is what Jobs called MacOS X.



To: rhet0ric who wrote (13394)5/11/1998 4:57:00 PM
From: David Semoreson  Respond to of 213177
 
rhetOric said: it should mean that Carbon-compatible MacOS apps can run on Intel (on Rhapsody/Intel). And yes, they are still using the Mach (Unix) kernel, both for Rhapsody and MacOS X.

Thanks for the confirmation, thats what I thought. This is *great* news, so why wasn't it presented that way? Perhaps later in the week it will come out .... or perhaps Jobs is afraid of how that headline sounds to MOT/IBM.

** David


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