Eudora Going OSS

[David Cake]

William Ehrich said:
>I use Eudora because I prefer the Mac style with separate windows to 
>the Windows Explorer style with its directory tree in a window pane, 
>and because it's easy to read a lot of mail with keyboard shortcuts 
>that Mail.app has rejected so far.
>It's too bad that Apple feel they have to ape the Microsoft style. 
>Probably a marketing thing. :-(

	I think there are some issues that go right back to 
fundamental system architecture. In Mac OS (Eudora dates from Mac OS 
7 era) creating windows is a lightweight, easy operation. There is no 
performance issue with an app that creates many windows on Mac OS 8/9 
- by contrast, creating windows is a relatively expensive operation 
on Mac OS X. Accordingly, Apple has tended to move most of its apps 
towards a paned UI - or at least, this seems a plausible explanation 
for a notable trend.
	Cheers
		Dave