Re: Cocoa downgrade from openstep?
Re: Cocoa downgrade from openstep?
- Subject: Re: Cocoa downgrade from openstep?
- From: Andre John Mas <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 20:35:34 -0400
On Wednesday, August 8, 2001, at 06:50 PM, Eric Peyton wrote:
- pantone support, gone
I do not know the reasoning behind this (someone could enlighten me
however).
Given the MacOS reputation in the design and graphics field I would hope
this
is at best temporary.
Moving from DPS to DPDF probably had a big impact on a lot of the graphic
oriented classes in Cocoa. I would expect (speculation here ) that Apple
simply released the aspects of Cocoa that were in working form rather than
releasing classes that weren't ready and subject to change - the latter
would be have caused more havoc than not releasing them at all.
In the case of graphics performance I am sure that there are many levels
at which optimizations can and will be applied. This ranges from drivers
to the DPDF implementation itself. Only time will allow this to be
improved.
If I remember rightly NeXTStep was originally black and white and only
appeared
in gray-scale due to the incredible resolution of the screens. Also
by the time the 68040 came out OpenStep had matured from its NeXTStep
days and the DPS implementation had had plenty of time to be optimized.
Andre
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