[Am-info] Jobs Touts OS, Unveils New IPod

[Mitch Stone]

On Saturday, July 20, 2002, at 07:37 PM, Paul Rickard wrote:

> ========== On 2002.07.20 08:10 PM, Mitch Stone typed: ============
>
>> Possibly, but only one of these browsers is Cocoa-based, and that's the
>> direction Apple wants to go with OSX.
>
>     In a perfect world. They all have Carbon releases, and that's going
> to have to do for now. AppleWorks is a Carbon release too - AW 7 could
> just build from there, in response to your earlier statement. I don't see
> any urgent need for everything to be purely Cocoa, especially when people
> like myself have had no end of trouble making OS X work on their systems.
> (I think I have some bad RAM _ classic overlooks it for the most past,
> but X is unstable to the point of being useless on this machine.)

If you aren't using OSX I can see why you might not see the point of Cocoa.
  If you are, it's pretty apparent Cocoa is the way OSX is meant to work 
and Carbon is just a stopgap API. Find out what's going on with your Mac. 
I've installed OSX on three Macs and it's solid on all of them.

Mitch