[X4U] Implications of Boot Camp

[Eugene]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:31:21AM CDT, Kuestner, Bjoern <Bjoern.Kuestner at drkw.com> wrote:
: 
: But there was also the "Yellow Box" in the early stages of OS X, now known
: as Cocoa and stripped of a significant feature. Initially Apple said they
: would provide a runtime environment for Windows that would allow Cocoa apps
: to run with a Windows-native feel on Windows. That of course would make it
: much more interesting for developers to create Cocoa apps: One codebase to
: create native Mac and Windows applications. At least, that was the theory
: ...
: 
: <http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/boxes.shtml>
: <http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2005/12/20051207183900.shtml>

Yellow Box was basically OPENSTEP for Rhapsody and Windoze.

The problem of Yellow Box for Windoze is essentially the same
general problem for OPENSTEP.  The codebase for the OPENSTEP
libraries and runtime binaries was complex and had to overcome
(or work around) problems and limitations unique to each OS
platform.

But the biggest problem of Yellow Box for Windoze was that
it did nothing for its new daddy: Apple.  If it didn't sell
more Macs, it went away.  Bye Newton, bye PowerPC clones.
So Yellow Box for Windoze was shelved.

And Yellow Box became Cocoa.

And Rhapsody became Mac OS X.

And so it goes.


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Eugene
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