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Tor:

I'm actually embarrassed that I forgot NextStep <g>.  There may be
something in the newer Mac OSs, too but I've been out of that game
for, well, a long time <g>.

Now, maybe I'm just crufty, but my definition of an OS usually ends
beyond the kernel and i/o systems.  The GUI isn't the OS, and the GUI
s/b OOP.

-Rich

Tor Iver Wilhelmsen wrote:
> 
> Richard Wilkman <rwilkman@inprise.com> writes:
> 
> > Come to think of it, I can't see what an OS gains from OOP.  Usually
> > you want to tune the OS to the architecture.
> 
> I believe NeXTStep/OpenStep/GNUStep/Rhapsody advocates would have some
> things to say about that... :-)
> 
> Yes, you need to tune some things to the OS architecture, but large
> parts of what people usually call an OS (a superset of the
> comp. sci. definitions) are application-, presentation- and
> session-layer (to map things to the OSI model). These can benefit from
> an OO way of thinking - and not only programming.

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