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From: granteri@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Grant Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: System 7 in assembler? (was Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!)
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Date: 5 Nov 90 03:45:06 GMT
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philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:
>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,
>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
>-- 
>Philip Machanick
>philip@pescadero.stanford.edu


Yes, Apple is recoding System 7.0 in C++. I believe assembler was initially
proposed, but the development of MPW C++ caused a change of plans.
Grant Erickson

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