[Am-info] Mac OS X

[Steve Cohen]

Here's some more interesting info about Apple:  it's a Q&A session between
Slashdot readers and
Steve Wozniak.

Woz on open source, on education, on hardware design.

http://slashdot.org/interviews/00/01/07/1124211.shtml

Mitch Stone wrote:

> Just returned from MacWorld San Francisco, where the new Mac OS X
> interface (called "aqua") was unveiled by Steve Jobs. Quite stunning. If
> Apple can pull this off, it will make Windows look like the old horsecart
> it is.
>
> Those who have followed the meandering development of OS X over the years
> probably know that Apple is offering three development options in the
> applications layer of OS X: "Classic" (aka, the Blue Box, where current
> Mac OS applications run), "Carbon" (the recently added "cleaned up"
> version of the Mac OS APIs), and "Cocoa" (aka, Yellow Box, the object
> development environment apparently derived from OpenStep). Most of us
> probably remember what Yellow Box was supposed to do for the MacOS, but
> the consensus was that this became moribund as a strategy for Apple with
> the change in direction from Rhapsody to OS X.
>
> Maybe not. I heard a very interesting rumor about Cocoa, which I think it
> best not to discuss on-list. If anyone is interested, or can help piece
> together this puzzle, please let me know directly.
>
> Another item of interest: Apple kept Aqua totally under wraps until
> Wednesday morning. Developers who wrote to the Carbon APIs were not told
> what their applications would inherit from Carbon in terms of look and
> feel, and saw it for the first time two days ago along with everyone
> else. Jobs was quite specific about this, and proceeded to demonstrate
> the "carbonized" version of MSIE 5.0 for the Mac (due out in a month or
> so).
>
> Mitch Stone
> mstone@vc.net
>
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