>> Do you mean by this that a lot of what was once 3rd party is now
>> incorporated in the OS? If so, can you give some examples, please.
I missed this context...so I'm not sure exactly what we're talking about.
> Not really. I think that Apple has just done a better job of optimizing what
> is already in the system. Someone like mikel could speak authoritatively to
> this I am sure.
So far as "3rd party" components goes...It depends upon how you want to
count and how far back you want to go.
Frankly, there are a lot more than this...and I may get some of the details
wrong because I don't feel like looking them up...but for a few general
examples...
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Apple menu-Stickies: "Adopted" by Apple circa 1994
Control Panels-Date & Time: Apple GUI wrapped around at least one 3rd party
component (the menu bar clock) and a few Apple ones
Control Panels-File Exchange: Mostly 3rd party (if I recall correctly)
Control Panels-Internet: Apple GUI wrapped around InternetConfig
Control Panels-Software Update: I believe Apple wrote this one themselves,
but only after similar products had made a huge splash on Windows. Rushing
their own out allowed them to claim they made it part of the system before
Microsoft and thus innovative. Doing so also killed one or two small
Macintosh companies.
Extensions-AppleShare IP Web & File: I believe that used to be Peter Lewis'
(but I could be wrong).
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MacTCP, in it's day, was not invented there, but brought into Apple.
Eventually it was supplanted by Open Transport...a Macintosh implementation
of Mentat Portable Streams <http://www.mentat.com/mps/mps.html> code.
There's a hole bunch of OpenGL stuff... The API itself certainly isn't
Apple's; however, the implementation probably is. Although I'm not sure how
much of it was done internally.
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mikel
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