On 13 Jul 2002, at 7:55, Philip Aker wrote: > On Friday, July 12, 2002, at 02:52 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > >> If you read my reply to Jari Williamsson on the same topic, > >> you will see that had Coda been implementing the changes for > >> Carbon incrementally, the adaption to MacOS X would be > >> comparable to a minor upgrade. That is because it's possible > >> to have a single Carbon executable which runs on MacOS from > >> 8.6 upwards to X. > > >> If you have access to a Mac, I can demonstrate with with a > >> small Carbon test application I've been using to explore the > >> APIs. > > [...] > > > Mac OS X is not by any stretch of the imagination a minor upgrade. > > What I said was: > > "...had Coda been implementing the changes for Carbon > incrementally, the adaption to MacOS X would be comparable to a > minor upgrade." > > I don't think you really know what I'm talking about because you > are not a Mac user and are incorrectly trying to make parallels > between Apple's migration strategies and those from Redmond. My > post to Jari went some way to explaining that. Please read it > again.
No. I do in fact know that OS X is not the MacOS. It is a version of UNIX. that alone means that it is fundamentally different from any previous Mac operating system. That means that every structure built atop that new OS may behave differently, even if it is an implementation of something in the basic Carbon API. It is all a question of exactly how the API call gets translated into the actually communication with the underlying OS and then the hardware itself. The API call itself may be identical, but called atop a different basic OS, the result can be very different. So, however long the Carbon API has been available and usable, writing to that API is no guarantee of predictable results on the new OS. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
