[ILUG] [OT] Mac OS-X Kernel

[Twomey_Mark at emc.com]

Yup,
      NeXTSTEP used Display Postscript, which is fine when they were
charging $10K for a NeXT Cube.
They've had to go the slightly cheaper road and license PDF for an OS they
intend to hock at $99.

 From what the old NeXT developers appear to be saying they have ported or
are in mid port with regard to the majority of the existing NeXT App's and
Network tools.
Also if you notice, the very capable NeXT mailer, has been ported to Cocoa
and now comes free with OS X.

Hmm, Should we call it MacOS X or NeXTSTEP 5 I wonder? 
Steve always said that NeXTSTEP was 5 rev's ahead of anything else on the
market..

Mark.


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jakma, Paul [SMTP:Paul.Jakma at compaq.com]
> Sent:	06 January 2000 15:51
> To:	'Dave Burke'; ilug at linux.ie
> Subject:	RE: [ILUG] [OT] Mac OS-X Kernel
> 
> 
> > and yeah they'd probably be all linked into this new cocoa 
> > suite, but if
> > you could port the cocoa libs, then thoeritically M$ could port any
> > product off OSX onto fbsd/linux? Right/Wrong? I mean they 
> > probably won't
> > but it does open the door for the possibilty and make walking thru the
> > door even easier!
> > 
> 
> i asked a similar question a long time ago (but about nextstep), and the
> answer is it's not that easy cause Step/Os X do not use The X Window
> System.
> Rather it uses some proprietary display system. (display postscript??)
> 
> however it's still a *nix, so (should/might) still integrate pretty well
> into a Unix enviroment, viz NFS, home direrctories, NIS.. etc. 
> 
> 
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