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Dave Kap said:

This is a great article and reminds me of DED.  Speaking of DED, can anybody tell me if he is ok and  coming back to Apple Insider?

I think he’s okay, and he posted an article about graphics/Metal a few weeks ago, but his last full-time contribution at AI was in November 2020, with a review of the M1 MacBook Pro and several related editorials. Before that, he was last fully active in June 2020. Roughly Drafted, though, hasn’t seen any new material since March 2020. 

He’s still active on Twitter. So I don’t know, it’s hard to say. Seems like he’s been on leave from AI, rather than being completely gone, or maybe now he’s working freelance rather than on staff?

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/03/05/lunar-details-a-very-exciting-time-for-high-end-mac-pro-apple-silicon

Interesting that you suggest that Amelio intended Rhapsody to be what would become the Carbon API (“... an OS that would run classic Mac apps within NeXTSTEP”). I had not heard the acquisition explained that way, but it makes sense.

Mac OS X Server was, literally, Rhapsody. So that’s what became of it, as Jobs took over and implemented the dual Carbon and Cocoa API approach to the transition from Mac OS “Classic” to Mac OS X.

Another important and under-appreciated aspect of the timing of transition was the shift to the Unicode standard. Cocoa was Unicode-based, clean and efficient.

Just to be clear, there is only one “private university in Stanford” — Stanford University. I guess there are legal reasons why the university isn’t named. According to a Wikipedia, much of the university isn’t, technically, in Palo Alto — it’s in an unincorporated area, designated “Stanford.”

rob53 said:

sevenfeet said:

I’m old enough to remember Photoshop 1.0 on the 68000 Macs. Architecture transitions predate PowerPC-Intel.

So am I and I bet most of the code hasn’t changed significantly which is why Adobe has had issues. They also turned to Windows relegating Mac development to the back burner. I would like to know if Adobe actually rewrote the software to make use of Apple’s Core technologies like Pixelmator and others have done to achieve all the speed and ML capabilities Apple offers.  

I think that happened for Lightroom (as opposed to Lightroom Classic), which is why it migrated to Apple Silicon basically overnight.

Photoshop/Illustrator date back to early Macintosh. Both have continuous histories on macOS, with no forks that I’m aware of, the closest thing being the Creative Suite and OS X transitions.

The thing about Klobuchar is she is entirely on the record with regard to these issues — I wonder, who here has actually read her bill?