Is Apple Creating a Pink Panther?
Is there a connection between Apple's Mac OS X Panther and an early-nineties x86 OS made by Apple and IBM code-named "Pink?" When you consider that "Pink" was made solely to kill Steve Jobs' NeXTSTEP, the naming convention seems less and less coincidental. The following Oscast editorial/broadcast has all the details.
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10.0 = Cheetah.
10.1 = Puma.
10.2 = Jaguar.
10.3 = Panther.
What next? Fat tabby.
Originally posted by COS
Is there a connection between Apple's Mac OS X Panther and an early-nineties x86 OS made by Apple and IBM code-named "Pink?" When you consider that "Pink" was made solely to kill Steve Jobs' NeXTSTEP, the naming convention seems less and less coincidental.
It wasn't an OS, just a framework (like OpenSTEP / YellowBox / Cocoa). The idea was to further establish object-oriented ideas. Some companies, including HP, were interested in it. Later, Apple left its development, and it got renamed "Taligent".
The Cocoa book I'm reading ("Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X", bignerdranch.com / Addison-Wesley) has a suitable comment on in its fourth chapter.
Once upon a time, there was a company called Taligent. Taligent was created by IBM and Apple to develop a set of tools and libraries like Cocoa. About the time Taligent reached the peak of its mindshare, I met one of its engineers at a trade show. I asked him to create a simple application for me: A window would appear with a button, and when the button was cliekd, the words "Hello, World!" would appear in a text field. The engineer created a project and started subclassing madly: subclassing the window and the button and the event handler. Then he started generating code: dozens of lines to get the button and the text field on to the window. After 45 minutes, I had to leave. The app still did not work. That day, I knew that the company was doomed. A couple of years later, Taligent quietly closed its doors forever.
You see, even though Taligent / Pink had similar goals NeXT did have, the outcome was quite the contrary. With Cocoa, try creating a "Hello, World!" window. You'll be done in a few secs - most of the time will be spent linking.
What would we get? A operating system capable of best-of-breed processor optimizations and the limited ability to run pre-compiled competing OS binaries--not everything, but perhaps the important stuff--quickly. This is no Virtual PC, although if Microsoft so felt the desire they could release a version of it that improved upon the "basic" WINE API converter with a proprietary one of a much higher quality. I doubt they'd do such a thing, however. Further, this whole approach is controversial, as it could cannabalize the developer efforts on OS X--the argument goes, why would any developer EVER compile for OS X/PPC if they could just pawn off their Win32/x86 binary on Mac users? But the move might just be enough of a disruption of your mentioned WinTel stranglehold to begin to tip a hardware balance.
Currently, FreeBSD includes compatibility libraries that do this very thing for Linux...so it isn't so much a stretch.
Originally posted by iBrowse
And his main supporting evidence that there is a connection is a coincidence in a cartoon cat's name?
Consider the irony. Apple worked with IBM to destroy the same company that would eventually take over Apple, give it its OS, its CEO, and eventually follow through by partnering with IBM once again.
So, is it conceivable that Mr. Jobs -- now faced with the opportunity to work with the same giant that once threatened his company, only to return more powerful -- would adopt the same strategic business plan to inflict on one of his competitors?
That sounds like Jobs to me...
Originally posted by ast3r3x
everyone was saying they wanted to see black fur on the X for OS X...perhaps u'll see pink fur
Escher
And, FWIW, there's no such thing as a 'Black Panther'. It's just a term used for describing dis-coloured Big Cats.
Originally posted by 709
And, FWIW, there's no such thing as a 'Black Panther'.
There certainly is, remember Forrest Gump?
everyone was saying they wanted to see black fur on the X for OS X...perhaps u'll see pink fu
Yea either way it's all good. I'm with Kenneth.
Ocelot
Lynx
Bobcat
Tiger
Lion
Liger <--- crossbreeding the two above
Leopard
the Puma is also known as the Cougar, Panther or Mountain Lion (fromhere
Originally posted by 709
And, FWIW, there's no such thing as a 'Black Panther'. It's just a term used for describing dis-coloured Big Cats.
Technically most black 'panthers' are jaguars or still other felines ... and technically most black jaguars are just pigmented = in daylight you can see the difference between the pigmented (a bit lighter) and black fur. But there were, even in the States, some black panthers till the 1800s (untill they were hunted to die as species).
Originally posted by curiousuburb
and as for the remaining list of cat names
Ocelot
Lynx
Bobcat
Tiger
Lion
Liger <--- crossbreeding the two above
Leopard
the Puma is also known as the Cougar, Panther or Mountain Lion (fromhere
You forgot:
Caracals
Margays
Servals
Originally posted by Brad
10.0 = Cheetah.
10.1 = Puma.
10.2 = Jaguar.
10.3 = Panther.
10.4 Lion
10.5 Cat
10.6 Dog (they ran out of cat family animals)
What is it with all the cats?