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If the original poster is in a comparison match of "mine's longer than your's" with Windows filenames do remember that Windows filenames have a 255 character limit for the entire path. So if you have a penchant for verbose filenames or very deep filing systems for better organization, this...

It's quite weird to speculate how some of the most ardent proponents of the Mac who are no longer with us today would react to Mac OS X. Don Crabb was a jovial guy who liked the classic Mac OS but wouldn't hesitate to point out where Apple went wrong. I think that he'd be throwing a lot of...

Darwin definitely boots on other platforms. The way some of these rumors sites try and read the entrails of the Darwin code for any evidence of being able to boot on a x86 machine is really amazing. "Oh, I discovered something that looks like fat code in the Darwin source; that indicates that...

If you put marketing and company politics aside, then a port of the "upper levels" of the Mac OS would not be difficult if they are designing it the way your comp sci professors told you to (modular programming, functional programming, or object oriented programming depending on what decade you...

If you read Apple's interface guidelines for Mac OS X, one of the things that is repeated over and over is that they want interface design to be centered on screen instead of the strong, left-aligned nature of the Classic Mac OS. Apple itself does a reasonably good job of sticking to this...

If you want to use Mac OS X's BSD underbelly then you will be interested in having a partition that's UFS based. UFS is case sensitive (not merely case preserving) so you can have "foo.bar" and "FOO.BAR" in the same directory, whereas HFS+ can not. HFS+ is really the way to go if you are...

Cool, I'll get one right away :-) There are very few third party drivers for any hardware yet. Apple has been very cautious about making sure that the foundation for the hardware manufacturers to write their drivers is very well thought out and tested. I can't speak for the third parties...

If there is one thing that makes the requirements so steep it's hard to say what it is. I've seen some people use some benchmarks to try and see how much processing the Mac is doing when some of these effects run, but I'm not sure they are using the tools correctly. They may be...

Obviously, if you think the Classic environment is too slow there's nothing that anyone can say to contradict this. Since it's a matter of perception, I can't say that you should percieve it faster :-) Think of Classic as an "above and beyond" sort of step. Apple has provided the API...

One other pressure on Apple to stay on schedule will be the combined Business/Consumer release of Windows next spring. If rumors on the Windows website are to be believed, "Whistler" will ship to manufacturers on April 18th, 2001. Apple isn't competing in the same marketplace as Microsoft...

Back in the late eighties when Apple released System 7, they needed to release a "wrap up" release to System 6. There weren't a lot of new features in the 6.0.8, but it was needed in environments where System 7 (with it's hefty 2 megabyte RAM requirement) needed to coexist with machines still...

The I/O Kit is where Apple and 3rd parties write the drivers to access hardware. It's been no secret that Apple wants to get this architecture done right the first time. Code down at this level of the kernel is difficult to write and can have a huge effect on stability and performance (either...