[G4] defraging a Mac

[Alex]

On Monday, Apr 5, 2004, at 13:44 Canada/Eastern, Doug McNutt wrote:

> [...] My guess (and that's dangerous!) is that references to multiple 
> forks are remnants of older directions at Apple and that the real plan 
> is to entirely do away with forks in favor of packages and 
> cross-platform compatibility. [...]

A perfectly reasonable guess. I seem to recall that Apple recommends to 
Mac OS X developers not to use the resource fork; it certainly appears 
to me that Apple is moving away from the forked structure (which would 
be negated by implementing multiple forks). It's also possible that, 
like other organizations, Apple is not a monolith, and that there are 
various groups within it who push their own agendas and technologies. 
For the moment, x-platform seems to be in the ascendant, but who knows 
what the future will bring?

f