Re: Enderle idiocy continues

In article <1128298282.543345.150190@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
imouttahere@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Travelinman wrote:
> > In article <sehix-EE2E30.14064602102005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > Steve Hix <sehix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Everything that I've read there that I could compare with my own
> > > experience at Apple at the same time looks correct; I have no reason to
> > > think that the rest is far off what actually happened.
> >
> > Yet there's nothing in there that says that Microsoft wrote any part of
> > Mac OS which is what imouttahere suggested.
>
> One part of the technical side you're missing is the customizability of
> the MacOS through code resources.
>
> Custom Menus and controls could be programmed by the application
> developer, and later system Toolbox revs picked these up for all apps
> to have access to.
>
> I've given you one (IIRC) example, the combo dropdown menu was a custom
> control originally invented by Microsoft that found its way into System
> 6, (IIRC).
>
> I've also given you an example of Gates being interested in having
> Hertzfeld develop the predecessor of the Multifinder for Microsoft
> applications.
>
> It is my assertion that Microsoft got as down and dirty into the
> machine as it could, and did enjoy rather unique access to the Mac
> development process. In games biz parlance, it was almost a "2nd-party"
> developer, something in between a first-party (Apple-label) and
> 3rd-party ISV.
>
> Gates was a pretty big believer in the promise of the Mac, he had one
> on his desk in 1985:
>
> http://www.boingboing.net/images/_images_billgates01.jpg

None of this has anything to do with your claim that Microsoft wrote Mac
OS.

The fact that they wrote apps - even apps that modified code resources -
is a far cry from them writing the OS.
.

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