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But Apple didn't really "start fresh" internally with OSX, they acquired NeXT which was already a pretty robust product when they made that decision. The abando
by evilduck 14y ago
But Apple didn't really "start fresh" internally with OSX, they acquired NeXT which was already a pretty robust product when they made that decision. The abandoned the OS9 codebase, but they didn't really start over from a blank slate.
- dasil003 14y agoWell there was also the many-years development of Copland that ultimately failed and precipitated the purchase of NeXT just to get a decent OS. It's hard to say whether Copland was a rewrite or a refactoring, but what is indisputable is that the root architectural decisions of Mac OS were a dead-end. They actually had to go beyond a rewrite to build something completely new and different, and then retrofit an emulator onto it to support the old system.