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juju · 02-13-2003, 10:46 PM

Maybe you can help me with something. Every time I get interested in Macs and start to read up on them, I'm lost in a sea of cool-sounding names.

For example, what exactly is Aqua? Is it a window manager? Or is it a desktop evironment?

Does Quartz provide the same function as X11? Does it do widgets? Or does it just provide simple drawing functions?

And what's the difference between Carbon and Cocoa? I know that Cocoa is object oriented, but why do they have two seperate system API's? And why do they need a set of system API's in the first place if the whole thing is based on BSD? I guess Carbon is supposed to be for legacy Mac apps, but then what's the difference between Carbon and Classic?

02-13-2003, 10:46 PM	#10
juju no one of consequence Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Arkansas Posts: 2,839	Maybe you can help me with something. Every time I get interested in Macs and start to read up on them, I'm lost in a sea of cool-sounding names. For example, what exactly is Aqua? Is it a window manager? Or is it a desktop evironment? Does Quartz provide the same function as X11? Does it do widgets? Or does it just provide simple drawing functions? And what's the difference between Carbon and Cocoa? I know that Cocoa is object oriented, but why do they have two seperate system API's? And why do they need a set of system API's in the first place if the whole thing is based on BSD? I guess Carbon is supposed to be for legacy Mac apps, but then what's the difference between Carbon and Classic?