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From: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System 7 in assembler? (was Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!)
Message-ID: <1990Nov5.070848.25424@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 Nov 90 07:08:48 GMT
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philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:

>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...

  In the original press release kit for the 8/24 GC that I received, it was 
noted that QuickDraw had been rewritten in C (or was it C++??) to make it 
portable to the AMD 29K.

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