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From: ejd@iris.brown.edu (Ed Devinney)
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Subject: Op Systems, was Re: Todd Rundgren's Macintosh OS
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Date: 27 Sep 89 17:59:27 GMT
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In article <4399@internal.Apple.COM> chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) writes:
> ...I really don't see how you can call NeXTStep an "OS" at all...

   Point well made; properly speaking it's not an OS, but it still is more 
than "just UN*X".  

  As far as the AppKit and MacApp, I find the AppKit to be somewhat more 
logically organized than MacApp, although v2.0 has alleviated quite a lot 
of what I used to find annoyingly arcane in MacApp.  The AppKit also 
offers some nice window classes (like buffered windows) that make some 
more-advanced apps easier to build.  And it's in a flavor of C, which is a 
personal preference.
   The thing that I like most about MacApp, though, is that you can always 
check the code as a last resort when the documentation isn't enough.  They 
laughed a lot at NeXT when, while attending the first developer's seminar, 
my associate and I asked to look at some source to get our own answers to 
poorly documented problems.
  Methinks my further blabberings should go to e-mail to save bandwidth.
I'll join anyone who's interested.

ed

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