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tim@ISM780B.UUCP (11/26/85)

> It's worse than that.  The Mac Finder, GEM (the Atari ST) and
> Intuition (Amiga) are CHOCK FULL of special routines that do
> windowing, menus, graphics, text, mouse etc.  for the

The Mac Finder doesn't have anything to do with windowing, menus, graphics,
text, mouse, etc.  The Mac Finder corresponds to the Unix shell.  It is
just another program.

						Tim Smith
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keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) (11/28/85)

In article <39700007@ISM780B.UUCP> tim@ISM780B.UUCP writes:
>
>> It's worse than that.  The Mac Finder, GEM (the Atari ST) and
>> Intuition (Amiga) are CHOCK FULL of special routines that do
>> windowing, menus, graphics, text, mouse etc.  for the
>
>The Mac Finder doesn't have anything to do with windowing, menus, graphics,
>text, mouse, etc.  The Mac Finder corresponds to the Unix shell.  It is
>just another program.
>
>						Tim Smith

Well ok, then what do you call the OS and windowing stuff in the Mac?
MacOS? MacKernel? MacGuts? MacProm? I thought the QuickDraw stuff was
low level, and had nothing to do with stuff like resource management
window management, event management, etc. and haven't heard of any
other 'term' for any of the stuff in there except the 'Finder'.

Keith Doyle
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keith@ssc-vax.UUCP (Keith Nemitz) (12/10/85)

> In article <39700007@ISM780B.UUCP> tim@ISM780B.UUCP writes:
> >
> >The Mac Finder doesn't have anything to do with windowing, menus, graphics,
> >						Tim Smith
> 
> Well ok, then what do you call the OS and windowing stuff in the Mac?
> Keith Doyle

I call it the toolbox, some others use the more pretentious title of
'Macintosh User Interface',  seriously.

                                               keith nemitz

                                                  A9F4

tdn@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Thomas Newton) (12/11/85)

> Well ok, then what do you call the OS and windowing stuff in the Mac?
> MacOS? MacKernel? MacGuts? MacProm? I thought the QuickDraw stuff was
> low level, and had nothing to do with stuff like resource management
> window management, event management, etc. and haven't heard of any
> other 'term' for any of the stuff in there except the 'Finder'.

The routines in ROM (including the window manager, resource manager, etc.) are
referred to as the Toolbox.  I think that the routines that are loaded from
disk (not counting patches to the ROM) are called Operating System routines.

                                        -- Thomas Newton
                                           Thomas.Newton@spice.cs.cmu.edu