[Klug-general] Ubuntu Branding

[James Blake]

On 8 Mar 2010, at 17:36, George Prowse wrote:

> My best mate is a mac specialist and he says that Mac OS was far better 
> designed than OSX will ever be. Although it could be for sentimentality..
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I've been a certified developer, system and network professional for both - it isn't.  

The Mach Kernel are way better written that the old Mac OS and Objective C is way better thought out than SmallTalk.  By time Copland kicked off in the early-mid nineties the Macintosh Toolbox (the kernel with large chunks of code in ROM) was very long-in-the-tooth and several dozens of layers of functionality overlaid on the original System 1 OS.

Best thing that happened was Jobs going and setting up NeXT, nicking some smart cookies from Apple and then spending a vast part of his $100 million payoff recruiting the smartest people he could find (they famously had Yale graduates as receptionists).  NeXT wasn't burdened by the baggage of Apple and took a clean look at OS, language and UI design - this is the legacy of Mac OS today.

When you used to start to want to design on Mac OS pre-X days you have to read the infamous Inside Macintosh - multiple huge telephone directory size volumes.  Now you can understand the architecture in a couple of small PDF files.