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Apple to Include BSD in WWDC

Posted by michael on from the taste-of-the-fruit-of-the-tree-that-is-knowledge dept.

Chris Coleman writes "Apple has just announced their annual World Wide Developer Conference to be held May 21 - 25, 2001. If you find yourself wondering why you should attend, let me see if I can help. In addition to the regular Mac OS application development, this year Apple has added conference tracks for BSD UNIX and Darwin."

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  1. Do your own research by maggard · · Score: 5
    Invariably when a topic like this gets posted a half-hundred folks post the same questions about the topic, another half-hundred rush off to make fist-post without bothering to read the material and the rest of us get stuck wading through much redundant material.

    Here's some answers

    1. Apple's own MacOS X material
    2. Apple's own Darwin material
    3. A MacOS X developer site
    4. An over-view of Mac-specific websites & their headlines
    5. Current listings of MacOS X-specific applications
    So please, before guessing or making wild-assed assumptions or making statements based on the *beta* how about just doing a reality-check first.
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    I don't read ACs: If a post isn't worth so much as a nom de plume to its author then I wont bother either.
  2. Apple lost it in the 80s. They never recovered. by Flabdabb+Hubbard · · Score: 5
    As a one-time avid mac fan, I think Apple reached its technical peak with the Mac IIcx series, and System 7. Up until then, the mac had a really consistent user interface, and look and feel which was due (in my opinion) to the almost facist-like control Apple had over their API.

    Anyone who ever wrote a mac application in the 80s or early 90s will tell you, their style guidelines made it IMPOSSIBLE to write an inconsistant gui. (unlike X11, and to a lesser extent Windows9X).

    But what must remain the alltime best OS ever, the 'Holy Grail' that both open source zealots and capitalistic monopolists alike have yet to achieve was reached by Apple with A/UX 3.0.

    Here was an OS that combined the ease-of-use of a a mac (brain dead point and click) with the powerful sophisitcation of a full blown UNIX implementation. It was quite simply a technical tour-de-force that has not been equalled to this day.

    Apple now realise this is the way forward, and hopefully with darwin/OS10 whatever they have found the path they so sadly lost in the early 90s.

    I for one look forward to the resurgence of easy-to-use Unix with the power of a Mac GUI.

    What do others think ?