philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) (11/05/90)
In article <F.*m?7$2@cs.psu.edu>, melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: |> On another thread, is System 7.0 being written in assembler? If so, |> Apple is not going to have an easy time moving to other |> high-performance architectures. |> Maybe someone from Apple can confirm this, but I've heard that Apple is gradually moving their OS to C++. I don't know how far this has gone. On a related issue, they must have reimplemented a substantial part of QuickDraw for their graphics accelerator card. Surely they were not silly enough to do that in assembly language... -- Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
granteri@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Grant Erickson) (11/05/90)
philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes: >In article <F.*m?7$2@cs.psu.edu>, melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >|> On another thread, is System 7.0 being written in assembler? If so, >Maybe someone from Apple can confirm this, but I've heard that Apple is >gradually moving their OS to C++. I don't know how far this has gone. On a >-- >Philip Machanick >philip@pescadero.stanford.edu Yes, Apple is recoding System 7.0 in C++. I believe assembler was initially proposed, but the development of MPW C++ caused a change of plans. Grant Erickson .______________________________________________________. | UUCP: {crash, tcnet}!orbit!pnet51!granteri | | ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!granteri@nosc.mil | | INET: granteri@pnet51.orb.mn.org | |------------------------------------------------------| | The right half of the brain controls the left half | | of the body. This means that only left-handed people | | are in their right mind. | !______________________________________________________!
torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) (11/05/90)
philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes: >Maybe someone from Apple can confirm this, but I've heard that Apple is >gradually moving their OS to C++. I don't know how far this has gone. On a >related issue, they must have reimplemented a substantial part of QuickDraw >for their graphics accelerator card. Surely they were not silly enough to do >that in assembly language... In the original press release kit for the 8/24 GC that I received, it was noted that QuickDraw had been rewritten in C (or was it C++??) to make it portable to the AMD 29K. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu Jim Bolger - a National landslide of incompetence
jlee4@lion.uwaterloo.ca (Johnny Lee) (11/06/90)
In article <1990Nov4.205040.2164@Neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.stanford.edu writes: [Stuff Deleted] >Maybe someone from Apple can confirm this, but I've heard that Apple is >gradually moving their OS to C++. I don't know how far this has gone. On a >related issue, they must have reimplemented a substantial part of QuickDraw >for their graphics accelerator card. Surely they were not silly enough to do >that in assembly language... From what I remember reading in MacWeek, they're supposed to be using C++ in the Finder. Don't know if anything else is affected, but Apple want ads usually mention experience with C++ as an asset. Johnny Lee