Only posted it because I thought it was interesting.. Regards, Mike K Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Apr 22, 2004, at 11:22 AM, Eugene Lee wrote:
Old news. Among software developers, momentum is known to be very hard to stop once started on the path of a particular API. We saw the ruckus back in the Rhapsody days when Apple tried to convince Mac developers to switch from the Mac Toolbox to OPENSTEP. How much momentum was there? Enough to make Apple invent Carbon to woo unhappy Mac developers.
I agree...and it was more than inventing Carbon...a heck of a lot of OSX got re-written between Rhapsody and 10.0.
IMO it turned out to be a better OS for it, even though it delayed OSX' release by about a year.
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