And doesn't OS X borrow heavily from NextStep, which was given to Apple as a
dowry when Steve remarried the company?
Bruce
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> From: "Michael W. Wellman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:50:45 -0500
> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Comparing
>
>>> 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...
>
> #####
>
> 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).
>
> #####
>
> 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.
>
> #####
>
> mikel
>
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