Adobe and Apple, is it all over

[Eugene]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 04:00:51AM CDT, David Zhou <david at nodnod.net> wrote:
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: On Oct 8, 2006, at 10:40 PM, Scott Stevenson wrote:
: 
: >On Oct 6, 2006, at 12:18 PM, David Zhou wrote:
: >
: >>"Apple already demonstrated that the technology built into new  
: >>Macs with Quartz Extreme and Core image would make developing a  
: >>similar product to Photoshop trivial for Apple."
: >>
: >>Um, no.  Not at all trivial.  In fact, stupidly hard.
: >
: >More stupidly hard than writing an OS?
: 
: No, but then that's not a valid comparison.  Keeping in mind that the  
: roots of OS X goes back to Next, Apple hasn't written an OS since the  
: pre-system 6 days.

You know, very few OSes have been written from scratch in
recent years.  Most OSes are derived from existing code.


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