"Beman Dawes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]At 07:30 PM 8/6/2003, Joel de Guzman wrote: [...]And don't forget the Mac ;-)
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I know that Windows and X Window are major API's that follow very different flow-of-control models. Is the Mac sufficiently different to be an important proof-of-concept case? Are there others?
I think Joel was mostly tongue-in-cheek there. When talking about the Mac, you have OS X and pre-OS X. Personally, I think supporting pre-OS X is about important as supporting VC6 for the next ten years...doable, but maybe not the best investment of time and resources. Pre-OS X can barely be considered modern operating systems, which is why OS X has the mach kernel. Since OS X uses X for the GUI, I think it's covered by "Windows and X".
Yikes!! The "X" in "Mac OS X" has NOTHING to do with X-Windows! (The Mac's "X" is for the Roman numeral for "ten".) Macs use an independent GUI API. But, like Windows, there are programs that allow X-Windows programs to work on Macs.
Daryle
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