23 Oct
2018
23 Oct
'18
4:09 a.m.
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 at 23:41, Jim Manley via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
This reference to "object-oriented" is way off, conflating GUI
"objects"
and true object-oriented software.
Yep. Welcome to the wonderful world of marketing. :-(
Ummmm ... no. You're apparently completely
uninformed about MIT Project
Athena, aka The X Window System, or X11, or just X, for short, and no, it's
not plural.
Um. Right. See my length post in the other thread.
BTW, MacOS X is based on Mach, the version of Unix
that was designed for
multiple, closely-coupled processors,
Yes...
and it, too, uses X as a basis for
its GUI.
No it doesn't.
Not at all, not even a little bit.
Mac OS X is based on NeXTstep. NeXTstep used Display Postscript as its
display server.
Postscript is encumbered by Adobe patents (and is mainly intended for print.)
Thus, Mac OS X moved from Display Postscript to Quartz, which renders
PDF to the screen. "Display PDF" instead of DPS.
Early OS X versions included a separate X server so that Unix X.11
apps could be run. It does not any longer, AFAIK. (I am running 10.13
on my iMac at home.)
The iPhone was the best example of this - after
swearing there would never
be an iPhone for years, they actually shipped the original version, not
only without an elegant copy/paste mechanism, but no means of performing
copy/paste at all for the first year, let alone not provided a means for
anyone outside Apple and its partners to create native apps.
I think you should read this:
https://blog.fawny.org/2018/10/22/hardtouse/
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