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From: jlee4@lion.uwaterloo.ca (Johnny Lee)
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Subject: Re: System 7 in assembler? (was Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!)
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Date: 5 Nov 90 23:33:41 GMT
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In article <1990Nov4.205040.2164@Neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.stanford.edu writes:
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>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...

From what I remember reading in MacWeek, they're supposed to be using C++
in the Finder. Don't know if anything else is affected, but Apple want ads
usually mention experience with C++ as an asset.

Johnny Lee