Bridge

1 · · Sept. 9, 2006, 7 a.m.
A Brief History Mac OS 9 and NEXTSTEP were like two icy comets wandering aimlessly in space. Neither was really going anywhere in particular. And then, BANG! They collide, stick wetly together, spinning wildly! Thus was born Mac OS X - or so the legend goes. How do you take these two comets, err, operating systems, and make a unified OS out of them? On the one hand, you have the procedural classic Macintosh Toolbox, and on the other you have object oriented OPENSTEP, as different as can be...