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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: MachTen Lite -- where is it?
Date: 1997/01/08
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In article <1997Jan7.235147.1@eisner>, kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> In article <5av34m$k77@felix.seas.gwu.edu>, mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:
>> In article <1997Jan7.064501.1@eisner>,
>> Larry Kilgallen <kilgallen@eisner.decus.org> wrote:
> 
>>>I discovered I also have a need for the full Power MachTen, so
>>>I ordered that from Apple last week.
>>                      ^^^^^ Tenon?
> 
> No, Apple.
> 
> The Apple Developer Catalog offers Power MachTen, Professional MachTen,
> and XTen for sale.  I would presume they will also offer Code Builder
> unless the Club Apple business means they will be not shipping direct
> and instead fronting for the MacTech Magazine operation.
> 
>> Someone ought to do some GNAT bindings to the Next-ish API.:-)
> 
> Someone ought to get a feed from Apple of common binding specifications,
> thereby establishing a Relationship as the merged API develops. In
> addition to the Yellow Box environment there are a lot of Apple APIs
                   ||||||||
                   Blue Box
> which have to be added to the NeXT environment, and those are likely
> to dribble out slowly over the coming two years.

Sorry about that, but as of today the press reports are calling the
System 7 compatibility portion the Blue Box and the NeXT environment
the Yellow Box.

It would be good to have Apple feed the Ada community on both sides,
but the Yellow Box (NeXT) side is where they have to do the most
work for other languages and hopefully building a reasonable approach
of multi-lingualism for OS bindings.

Larry Kilgallen