On Sep 7, 2006, at 4:50 PM, ryan brooks wrote: >> The team at Apple predicted this result as far back as 1999 (maybe a >> little earlier ... that's when I became involved in the effort) and >> much of Mac OS X's inner workings were architected to provide a good >> degree of processor independence and a reasonable schema for moving >> forward through a processor change. The results of my five/six years >> of effort along with that of several thousand other people are >> producing the Apple systems, Mac OS X and the third party >> applications of today and into the foreseeable future. >> > > 90% of the portability work was done at NeXT, not Apple.
That's an uninformed, snide comment. I'm sorry, ryan, but you don't know what you're talking about. I was on the team, I know what was done, precisely. I helped make some of the decisions to make it that way. Besides, half the critical development team of NeXT came to Apple when Apple acquired the company and lent their expertise and blood/ sweat/tears to the Mac OS X development effort for four years to release Mac OS X. At that point they were working for Apple, not NeXT. What do you think they were doing? Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
