[H-GEN] Mac OSX emulator

[Willie Yeo]

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At 12:12 PM 7/06/2003 +1000, you wrote:

>Mmmm... There appears to be alot more complexity to the Mac OS's than I 
>thought.
>
>As for what enviroment it was coded for well I can't tell you but on their 
>information page they do say "MYOB AccountEdge runs on Mac OS X 
>(10.1/10.2), Mac OS X (Classic) and Mac OS 8.6 to 9.x."

         The term "Carbon" applications are classic MacOS (pre OS X) with 
patches to run on OS X natively without running on the Classic mode.

         The term "Cocoa" applications are written MacOS X exclusively or 
specifically.

         The "Blue Box" is the environment that sits on top of the Darwin 
(FreeBSD-based) kernel, which is the base of MacOS X, that runs the Mac OS 
X desktop environment, which contains the MacOS/Apple GUI environment.

         By the sounds of it, the MYOB AccountEdge is most likely a 
"Carbon" based application.

         To put it in a lighter note, Mac OS X programs that runs on the 
GUI is not really portable to other Linuxes/BSDes.




Willie Yeo
Network Engineer (Infrastructure)
Connect Internet Solutions Pty Ltd
Level 3, 100 Wickham Street
Fortitude Valley QLD 4006
Phone: (07) 3606 7351
Fax  : (07) 3606 7399



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