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377: ‘guyenglish.zip’, With Guy English
The Talk Show With John Gruber
The Rise and Fall of Apple
Mac OS 9 was really good and gave Apple the headroom they needed to let Mac OS 10 establish itself. There was a kernel, but it also had to support these ancient APIs. If they could have said carbon only no software except carbon, they could have used a much more modern system architecture. But as a practical matter for the late 90s and first few years of the 2000s, yeah,. They needed it and they modernize it.
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