Timeline for What is the origin of Mac OS X?
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| Mar 5, 2019 at 19:29 | comment | added | snips-n-snails | "Apple had a couple of abortive attempts to create a replacement for MacOS before they bought Next." Described here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system) | |
| Mar 5, 2019 at 14:58 | comment | added | Tommy | So the apocryphal version goes, the Mac OS code was so heavily tied up in assembly language and jumping through various accumulated hoops that the small parts of the Toolkit that they'd ported to Windows for QuickTime were easier to start from. | |
| Mar 4, 2019 at 18:52 | comment | added | JeremyP | @Tommy That's interesting if true. I had assumed it was ported from MacOs but I have no evidence to support that. | |
| Mar 4, 2019 at 15:28 | comment | added | Tommy | Potentially true trivia fact: a large portion of Carbon predates Apple's acquisition of Next, coming from the Windows version of QuickTime. This is a story popularly told and which has managed to elevate itself to Wikipedia inclusion, ensuring it will survive for a while longer. Though nobody actually seems to have a citation for it. | |
| Mar 4, 2019 at 14:11 | history | edited | JeremyP | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 4, 2019 at 13:19 | history | answered | JeremyP | CC BY-SA 4.0 |