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In article <3a53cd82@news.povray.org>, "Tony[B]" <ben### [at] catholic org>
wrote:
> > For you Mac users who have MacOS X:
> > Yes there will be a carbonised
> > version of MegaPOV 0.6b!
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> <ignorant wintel user>What does carbonised mean?</ignorant wintel user>
You asked...
It means it is written using Carbon, one of the API's for Mac OS X.
Carbon is based on the old Mac ToolBox API, updated to allow things like
preemptive multitasking and memory protection...it's advantages are that
a total rewrite of the software is not necessary, developers don't have
to learn a completely new API, and programs using it can run on both
pre-OS X systems (OS 9, and I think OS 8.x with some updated libraries)
and OS X.
The other major API for OS X applications is Cocoa(as in hot chocolate),
which is designed to be used with the Objective-C language, though it
can also be used with Java and (I think) C++. It's main advantage is
development speed(though it may not have as much of an advantage there,
the same tools work with Carbon)...and to me it seems easier to learn.
And it is completely object-oriented, and more up to date...Carbon
apparently still shows it's Pascal ancestry.
Is that more than you wanted to know? If not, I can dig up more... ;-)
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Christopher James Huff
Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg, http://tag.povray.org/
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 20:04:19 -0600, Tony[B] wrote:
><ignorant wintel user>What does carbonised mean?</ignorant wintel user>
Burnt to a crisp. For those with seriously overclocked machines, no doubt.
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Ron Parker http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions. Mine. Not anyone else's.
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Thanks, Chris... Just the right amount I wanted to know. :) The only time
I've used a Mac was while we were scanning the yearbook pictures, and
someone's uncle worked at a company that had 'em and they let us use 'em.
All I can say is that I have a deep respect for the Quadra. That little
thing chugged along almost as good as my machine (considering the gigantic
resolutions we were scanning at). They let us use the G3 one day... it was
great... but I'm a PC guy at heart. :)
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smellenbergh wrote:
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> We didn't ask Jerome's permission yet to add his stuff. We will do so
> but Jerome, if you have no objections you can let us know in advance :-)
>
I don't have any objection, on the contrary, I'd be
delighted to see it included in something more "official"
than mine :)
Jerome
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