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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: System 7 in assembler? (was Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!)
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Date: 4 Nov 90 20:50:40 GMT
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In article <F.*m?7$2@cs.psu.edu>, melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
|> On another thread, is System 7.0 being written in assembler?  If so,
|> Apple is not going to have an easy time moving to other
|> high-performance architectures.
|> 
Maybe someone from Apple can confirm this, but I've heard that Apple is
gradually moving their OS to C++. I don't know how far this has gone. On a
related issue, they must have reimplemented a substantial part of QuickDraw
for their graphics accelerator card. Surely they were not silly enough to do
that in assembly language...
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu