1997-03-01 Apples Operating System Strategy Part2

[appleeimac]

@csiew23 pretty much yea

[bizopclothing]

It's all about the marketing strategy. That's always what makes the difference.

[alexxmidnite]

It's too bad Blue Box was abandoned for Classic. It would have been far simpler to implement the classic APIs on top of Mach instead of running a copy of Mac OS in a sandbox. Then each classic application could run in it's own address space with memory protection and multitasking like DOS apps under OS/2.

[iroganai]

Classic was the direct successor to the Blue Box. Blue box was, from the start, a virtualized box of Mac OS even in Rhapsody... see any article on the internet! Reimplementation of (parts of) classic API on top of Mach is what's called Carbon.

[MUHOHAHA]

i dont get why they dident put a dock in mac os right when the baught NExT

[aliciagreening]

This is history!