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From: tdn@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Thomas Newton)
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Subject: Re: Re: net.sources.amiga, let's table t
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 16:44:31 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 10 16:44:31 1985
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> 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'.

The routines in ROM (including the window manager, resource manager, etc.) are
referred to as the Toolbox.  I think that the routines that are loaded from
disk (not counting patches to the ROM) are called Operating System routines.

                                        -- Thomas Newton
                                           Thomas.Newton@spice.cs.cmu.edu