Yellow Box is what became the Cocoa API's and all that is needed to run the Cocoa apps (like Quartz etc.). Essentially it's now Mac OS X minus Carbon and Classic (and other non-Cocoa APIs).
In the days of Rhapsody, Apple announced that they would maybe port the Yellow Box to x86. Guess what is Mac OS X on intel?
Apple stopped using the term Yellow Box the same day they started talking about Cocoa, Carbon, Mac OS X and Classic (Called previously the Blue Box).
So the term Yellow Box is not relevant anymore.
Perhaps you meant the Red Box? In Apple's plans, the Red Box was the Cocoa API's (and friends) running inside Windows, enabling people to run Cocoa apps "natively" on Windows.
The MP3Concept was an application with an MP3 file icon... If you did a get info on the file it would show "Application". Just like any trojan can do on any OS.
Ok the file would also play in iTunes when you dragged the file onto the iTunes icon. But the file had to be compressed in.zip or.sit format to be shared or transfered on the internet to work and Mac users are not used to get MP3 files in a compressed files. (It had to be a double fork file)
Now try to download and run the MP3Concept now on Tiger... First Safari will warn you that the archive contains an Application and give you the opportunity of canceling it. If you accept you get a file with an.app extension (even with extensions turned off), if you double-click the fake MP3 file, the OS will warn you about running an application for the first time. An alert like "The Application: All you need is love.mp3.app will be run for the first time..." would surely be an obvious sign that something is wrong...Then if the file wants to install in a permanent manner or want to erase/access files outside the user folder, it will need to ask the admin password.
This is a lot of hoops to get through... If someone jumps through all of them to play an MP3 file... well what can I say... (I don't like the idea of saying that non-techies deserve to get viruses.)
Results 1 - 50 of about 662 from slashdot.org for allintitle:Mac
I guess that a few results are from articles about "MAC addresses". Still, many articles have Mac(intosh) in the title without including the term Apple. These would have to be added to the 467 number.
I thought it would be interesting to point this fact since not many people seem to be aware of it.
For many years before the IBM G5, most people thought that only Motorola and Apple had rights to Altivec (aka VMX).
IBM (also) had rights to Altivec since the beginning. Further proof of it is that from Microsoft's own specs for the upcoming XBOX 360, the 3 core G5 chip each have a VMX (Altivec) unit. It's rumored that the PPC Gecko chip in the GameCube had modified VMX extensions.
With more and more programmers learning to program PowerPC and Altivec code, and Apple investment in integrating both in their own software, I really don't see Apple doing a move to another CPU platform anytime soon.
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Yellow Box is what became the Cocoa API's and all that is needed to run the Cocoa apps (like Quartz etc.). Essentially it's now Mac OS X minus Carbon and Classic (and other non-Cocoa APIs).
In the days of Rhapsody, Apple announced that they would maybe port the Yellow Box to x86. Guess what is Mac OS X on intel?
Apple stopped using the term Yellow Box the same day they started talking about Cocoa, Carbon, Mac OS X and Classic (Called previously the Blue Box).
So the term Yellow Box is not relevant anymore.
Perhaps you meant the Red Box? In Apple's plans, the Red Box was the Cocoa API's (and friends) running inside Windows, enabling people to run Cocoa apps "natively" on Windows.
Don't forget the NES :) and the SNES which used a 16-bit variant, the 65c816.
The MP3Concept was an application with an MP3 file icon... If you did a get info on the file it would show "Application". Just like any trojan can do on any OS.
.zip or .sit format to be shared or transfered on the internet to work and Mac users are not used to get MP3 files in a compressed files. (It had to be a double fork file)
.app extension (even with extensions turned off), if you double-click the fake MP3 file, the OS will warn you about running an application for the first time. An alert like "The Application: All you need is love.mp3.app will be run for the first time..." would surely be an obvious sign that something is wrong...Then if the file wants to install in a permanent manner or want to erase/access files outside the user folder, it will need to ask the admin password.
Ok the file would also play in iTunes when you dragged the file onto the iTunes icon. But the file had to be compressed in
Now try to download and run the MP3Concept now on Tiger... First Safari will warn you that the archive contains an Application and give you the opportunity of canceling it. If you accept you get a file with an
This is a lot of hoops to get through... If someone jumps through all of them to play an MP3 file... well what can I say... (I don't like the idea of saying that non-techies deserve to get viruses.)
Results 1 - 50 of about 662 from slashdot.org for allintitle:Mac
I guess that a few results are from articles about "MAC addresses". Still, many articles have Mac(intosh) in the title without including the term Apple. These would have to be added to the 467 number.
I thought it would be interesting to point this fact since not many people seem to be aware of it.
For many years before the IBM G5, most people thought that only Motorola and Apple had rights to Altivec (aka VMX).
IBM (also) had rights to Altivec since the beginning. Further proof of it is that from Microsoft's own specs for the upcoming XBOX 360, the 3 core G5 chip each have a VMX (Altivec) unit. It's rumored that the PPC Gecko chip in the GameCube had modified VMX extensions.
With more and more programmers learning to program PowerPC and Altivec code, and Apple investment in integrating both in their own software, I really don't see Apple doing a move to another CPU platform anytime soon.
It would be a really bad timing IMHO...