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November 20, 2004
Tiger talk
I've been pretty bogged down in both things technical and not to be too excited recently about new operating systems and such, but OS X Tiger is looking very interesting. From this article for Apple developers it seems like there's really more to this new release than first meets the high. Apple has also linked to this O'Reilly article that has a little more to say. Building synchronization into the OS is an idea that's overdue, for one thing. Of course potentials of an OS are not very useful unless developers take advantage of them I remember the days of OS/2 when a lot of built-in power went untapped. But the (compared to today) snaillike speed of the CPU then made a lot of "cool" ideas too expensive to really use. When I bought my Mac it was intended mostly as a "fun" machine to edit photos and make moves, but it has now become my favorite place to write code as well -- especially since Visual Slick Edit runs on it now (Visual Slick Edit is an X windows app and as such is a little more awkward than editors like BBEdit, but one of the reasons I like VSE is that it works the same way on Windows, Mac or Linux. It's not the prettiest thing around, but one of the most powerful.Posted by markj at November 20, 2004 02:46 PM
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