Dean Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I haven't used the new mac, but I have been following development efforts
> on some lists, where people are porting things to the macosix (too bad it
> wasn't macos 9)
> 
> It appears to have a full load to unix tools, and a interesting approach
> to gui libraries. Apparently there are two types of libraries, with
> different thread models, and such. One is very mac-like, and has better
> access to media features, and the other is posix/unix like. I'm not sure
> if it uses X11 or not.

No, there's no X11 as shipped. XFree86 has been ported, though.

As I understand it, there are three APIs:

* Quartz - the native MacOS X API
* Cocoa - essentially a relabelled Java API
* Carbon - I believe this is the MacOS 9 compatibility API

If you install XFree86, you get the X11 API as a fourth target, on top
of which you can load others like GTK+, QT, Motif, etc.


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