On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 at 23:41, Jim Manley via cctalk <cctalk@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/ -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 - ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
