tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) (09/29/88)
Todd Rundgren Writes a Mac OS!
MacWeek's Sept 27 issue reports that Todd Rudgren has written an
OS shell that runs over the Mac Resource Manager and Quickdraw,
for his new unnamed paint program. Using this OS shell, called
HyperCode, "you navigate to various pieces of data, and when you
get to the data that you want, the tools that work on it become
available," says Todd.
Quoting from the article:
"The tools are designed as separate and independent code
resources that can be mixed and matched. Only the environment
shell and whatever tools are in immediate use are held in memory,
in order to reduce overhead requirements.
"More importantly, Rundgren said, HyperCode allows
individual tools to replace obsolete ones [I hate that syntactical
construct!] without having to get an application. 'Users don't
have to go out and buy a $500 program to get some things they do
want and some things they don't know if they want and maybe some
things they definitely don't want,' says Rundgren, who envisions
that most tools will be small enough to distribute on CompuServe.
"'There's no low-end, high-end dichotomy [between
applications], and it makes the user' senvironment infinitely
expansible,' he said."
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Anyone have any more information on this? Sounds remarkably like
an Object *nix in concept...
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