12 Jun
2012
12 Jun
'12
5:23 p.m.
On 12 June 2012 16:57, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 06/12/2012 11:37 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Yes, exactly that.
Apple had a whole OS ecosystem before Mac OS X: its own OS, binary
format, disk metadata system, printing system, network protocol,
network filesystem, object model, web browser, search subsystem and
front-end, sound, image and video formats, etc. etc.
OS X brought over some elements and some bits stuck around for a while
- Classic mode, for instance.
Almost all of it is gone now.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing, it's just remarkable how radical the
transition has been. Many have said it before me, but it's as if NeXT
took over Apple rather than the other way round.
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On 12 June 2012 16:20, Dave McGuire <mcguire
at neurotica.com> wrote:
?Sure, like everything else, though. ?How long does something have to
last as a product to be considered "successful"?
On 06/12/2012 11:05 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
True. Ultimately killed off, though. It's a shame how many Apple projects came to
nothing and died. The
list is long...
* Newton
* OpenTransport
?I don't know all of their cutesy little project names, but these two
at least didn't exactly fizzle. ?Yes, they were discontinued eventually,
but not before being in pretty popular use. Indeed about the only Apple technologies that
persist in Mac OS X are
QuickTime and HFS+. I think it's fair to say /everything/ else is gone
now; a few backwards-compatibility traces remain.
?Now I have to admit that it's been a long time since I've slept, but
this is confusing to me. ?There's TONS of Apple code in OS X and iOS
that could arguably be termed "Apple technologies". ?What, exactly, are
you talking about here? ?Do you mean "old" "Apple technologies",
like
pre-OS X stuff?