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On Mar 15, 2005, at 11:00 AM, John M McIntosh wrote:

> Ooo a difficult question but I'll point that the mac carbon vm is more 
> mac aware.
>
> a) supports apple events and apple script.

yay!

> b) uses HFS+ file names

Ick!

> c) knows about HFS+ aliases

if they just act like symlinks - then yay!

> d) Much better integration with os-x unicode text services.
> e) Support 1/2/4 bit video
> f) Supports multiple windows

yay! yay! and yay!

> Uses
> unix file i/o
> unix core audio
> unix tcp
>
> Historically it gets updated more frequently, and will migrate over 
> time to
>
> a) unix file names, (perhaps both)
> b) more of the unix plugin support
> c) perhaps more of the unix cocoa logic.

yay! yay! and yay!

Seriously though, the thing that keeps me from using that VM is the 
non-unix view of the file system.

- -Todd Blanchard
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