At 19:03 -0400 4/18/01, Scott Anguish wrote:
>On Wednesday, April 18, 2001, at 06:01 PM, Paul Henry Smith wrote:
>
>> Fred is a member of the core operating system group and senior engineer
>> at Apple. This is his story about integrating UNIX and Mac OS, the
>> trade-offs and the reasoning.
>>
> It's pedantic, but Fred left Apple about two months ago to work at
>a startup.
>
> He's still actively involved in Darwin, and probably did the port
>of Perl 5.6 to Darwin in the first place...
>
> I don't see why this was an issue for the Mac side of things.. case
>sensitivity could have been taken care of in the Finder, and since the
>majority of Mac applications use a GUI to select files, this could have
>been worked out without breaking unix stuff..
>
The complaints I see from the Macintosh user side of the fence are along
the lines of "all those Next folks wanted to see that interface, not the
Mac interface, and they kept far too much of the Unix stuff...they
shouldn't have changed anything about the Mac to accommodate Unix or Next.
And why is the command line there at all?"
I guess that, as usual, it pretty much depends upon what one is used to.
--John
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John Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Port Ludlow, WA, USA
