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Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by andrewf on Friday July 12, 2024 @03:18PM (#40948554)
Apple bolted Carbon APIs onto NeXTSTEP/Mach, and Microsoft bolted the OS/2 Presentation Manager onto NT (https://virtuallyfun.com/2021/05/19/presentation-manager-for...), so I'm not sure why bolting Carbon onto NT would be unreasonable.
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Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by cnasc on Friday July 12, 2024 @04:10PM (#40948949)
IIRC from reading Showstopper, NT was intended to afford that sort of different frontend swapping. It just happened that Windows became the primary focus in the end.
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Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by stg24 on Friday July 12, 2024 @04:55PM (#40949351)
It might have been necessary to stick with the NT 3.51 codebase. I think they broke the clean separation of the GUI from the rest of the OS in 4.0, which was launched that year, for performance reasons.
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