RE: [ILUG] MP3

From: Twomey, Mark (Twomey_Mark at domain emc.com)
Date: Wed 28 Apr 1999 - 15:45:18 IST


I don't recall seeing anything about that (But I could be wrong!),
        
Steve will not allow anyone to mess with the UI for OS-X ,so as you can
imagine he wont make it easy for people to work around it. We should have a
clear view of what can and cannot be done with OS-X around the 30th of April
(It's being rolled out to at the Apple Developers conference).

Mark.

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Vincent Cunniffe [SMTP:vincent at domain beacon.ie]
        Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 3:25 PM
        To: Paul Jakma
        Cc: ilug at domain linux.ie
        Subject: Re: [ILUG] MP3

        Paul Jakma wrote:
>
> vincent wrote:
>
> I understood that OS X is a mach-based BSD derivative. If
> that's the
> case, then any code written for it should run on other unices
> without
> too much trouble
>
> but OS X won't be using the X window System, so any graphical apps
won't
> port. And it being an apple, i'd say most apps will be graphical.

        I thought they'd produced an X system for it, alongside the
        native windowing framework?

        Vin

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