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To: J R KARY who wrote (24713)	5/10/1999 2:30:00 PM
From: Richard Habib	Respond to of 213177

More from MacinTouch Moving on to Mac OS X Client, the new Mac operating system due later this year, Jobs and Tevanian noted its "Darwin" foundation (Mach microkernel and Berkeley Unix components) then announced a completely new graphics and windowing system: "Quartz" is based on Adobe's PDF (Acrobat) technology, and Jobs said, "This is going way beyond the stuff that those of you who were NeXTstep developers had." After Shiller demonstrated some of its capabilities, Jobs also noted, "This stuff was actually developed by Pixar about 15 years ago." The Mac OS X "blue box" has been renamed the "Classic environment," which provides compatibility for existing applications without offering any of the extra features of Quartz, memory protection and the like. Mac OS X's "yellow box" has been renamed "Cocoa" and adds full Java programming interfaces to the Objective C interfaces. Mac OS X will include a new mail client, written in the Cocoa environment, and Apple is developing a brand-new Finder using the Mac OS X "Carbon" programming interfaces. This new Finder will, for the first time, integrate views of network and local resources, superseding the ancient and limited Chooser paradigm. "Developer Preview I" of Mac OS X Client, with Darwin, Quartz, application development tools, etc., is being distributed today. Apple has made three major changes to Mac OS X with this version, in preparation for the future: moving from the mach 2.5 microkernel to version 3.0 replacing the entire windowing system with the new Quartz changing compilers (gnu-based) "Developer Preview 2" is due in the fall, and Mac OS 10.0 is due to ship within a year.