[geeks] Mac definitions (was: Smart phone data usage)

[Mark Benson]

On 7 Jul 2011, at 17:23, Michael Parson <mparson at bl.org> wrote:

> MacOS X - The whole Mac Operating Environment
>
> Darwin - The underlying kernel for the OS (think SunOS 2.10 vs Solaris 10).
>
> Carbon - the MacOS API from MacOS 8/9 days, OS X supported some bits of it
>         but it has since been replaced with Cocoa
>
> Cocoa - The current MacOS API
>
> Quartz - Graphics layer for Mac OS X
>
> Core Audio/Video/Animation/etc - low-level APIs for those varous subsystems
>
> Finder - The UI, the graphical shell, what Apple calls "The Macintosh
>     Desktop Experience," the rough equiv of Windows' Explorer
>     (not IE, but explorer.exe).
>
> My examples don't line up 100%, but should give you a rough idea of
> where the bits fit together.

Holy crap on a stick I just had a major flashback to about 7 years ago and one
of Dan Knight's LowEndMac mailing lists trying to explain OS X to yet another
OS9 loving zealot who couldn't get their head around a real (or at least
better at any rate) UNIX based OS.

I think I need a lie down :P

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