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Why Apple didn't use X for the window system (2003)

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• johndoe0815 2y ago
  Amazingly uninformed and stupid comment… “It uses Mach-O, an unproven format that is proprietary to Apple. The moribund FreeBSD, off which OS X is based, uses ELF, so clearly Apple went to the extra effort of "switching" (heh) simply to break compatibility. With ELF, users would be able to run most of their Lunix apps”…
• karmakaze 2y ago
  The post isn't merely opinion, as a reply to that post says: > FYI, the parent post appears to have been posted by Mike Paquette, who designed/wrote a good part of Quartz. His post is more than "+5 Informative", it should be "+10 Reference". > See a previous post of mine[0] for references to Usenet posts from Mr. Paquette. [0] http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=74909&cid=6713070 http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=74909&cid=6713070