At 6:49 PM -0700 4/18/01, John W Baxter wrote:
>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?"
Actually, I think Apple did a pretty good job of hiding Unix. I can
sympathise with the complaints about the GUI change to some extent.
But this case sensitivity thing was just a *really* stupid decision
on their part, since people using Classic or Aqua would likely have
never noticed the change.
>
>I guess that, as usual, it pretty much depends upon what one is used to.
>
> --John
>
>
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