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GS/Mac toolbox (was Re: Apple does it again)

Subject: GS/Mac toolbox (was Re: Apple does it again)
From: sheldon@atlcom.net (Sheldon Simms)
Date: 1997/02/01
Followup-to: comp.sys.apple2.programmer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.apple2.programmer
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References: <32F0F11D.4CA8@lexis-nexis.com> <5cr7ie$cp8@inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com> <5crel9$jt0$1@europa.frii.com> <5cti6i$ro8@uni.library.ucla.edu> <s-bytnar-ya023480000102971331000001@news.cso.uiuc.edu>

In article <s-bytnar-ya023480000102971331000001@news.cso.uiuc.edu>,
s-bytnar@uiuc.edu (Steven Bytnar) wrote:

> Lord knows I wouldn't want to be
> using the GS/OS (System 6.01) API for programming Macs!

Say What?! What's the difference?

> Mac & IIgs toolbox
> programming is similar, but the drastic architectural differences made the
> best choice for Apple's developers to make a completely different toolbox.

Similar? They're practically the exact same. It seems to me that the
IIgs toolbox is a little cleaner. This makes sense because it was written
*after* the Mac toolbox, thus taking advantage of the Mac experience and
also because the Mac toolbox has been hacked up more than the IIgs version.

-Sheldon

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-- 
W. Sheldon Simms III - sheldon@atlcom.net

References:
- Apple does it again
  - From: "John E. Townsend" <utownje@lexis-nexis.com>
- Re: Apple does it again
  - From: cheer@i.hate.spam (Christopher D. Heer)
- Re: Apple does it again
  - From: shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)
- Re: Apple does it again
  - From: pubpc1@library.ucla.edu
- Re: Apple does it again
  - From: s-bytnar@uiuc.edu (Steven Bytnar)

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