Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cadovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cadovax!keithd From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: Re: net.sources.amiga, let's table t Message-ID: <971@cadovax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Nov-85 19:03:15 EST Article-I.D.: cadovax.971 Posted: Wed Nov 27 19:03:15 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 10-Dec-85 06:27:11 EST References: <499@caip.UUCP> <39700007@ISM780B.UUCP> Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) Organization: CONTEL CADO Systems, Torrance, CA Lines: 22 In article <39700007@ISM780B.UUCP> tim@ISM780B.UUCP writes: > >> It's worse than that. The Mac Finder, GEM (the Atari ST) and >> Intuition (Amiga) are CHOCK FULL of special routines that do >> windowing, menus, graphics, text, mouse etc. for the > >The Mac Finder doesn't have anything to do with windowing, menus, graphics, >text, mouse, etc. The Mac Finder corresponds to the Unix shell. It is >just another program. > > Tim Smith Well ok, then what do you call the OS and windowing stuff in the Mac? MacOS? MacKernel? MacGuts? MacProm? I thought the QuickDraw stuff was low level, and had nothing to do with stuff like resource management window management, event management, etc. and haven't heard of any other 'term' for any of the stuff in there except the 'Finder'. Keith Doyle # {ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd # cadovax!keithd@ucla-locus.arpa