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abhibeckert@lemmy.world 11 months agowhich of course became Apple, but they weren’t at the time
Apple and NeXT had all the same people working for them.
Comment on What DID Apple innovate?
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 11 months agowhich of course became Apple, but they weren’t at the time
Apple and NeXT had all the same people working for them.
ripcord@kbin.social 11 months ago
App bundles have virtually no relationship with resource forks. I guess you could say that App Bundles COULD include SOME metadata that you could have included in Forks, including the idea that something was an application or not. But that's about it.
On the NeXT always being Apple thing - I mean, some of it maybe was spiritually Apple, and eventually it was 100% Apple. But we're splitting hairs.
fubo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Eh, the difference between app bundles and resource forks isn’t the functionality itself, but rather how the filesystem interface cuts through the functionality.
An OSX bundle is a Unix directory, whereas a classic Mac application is a file in a filesystem that supports multiple forks within a single file. Either way, you have typed objects (files or resources) that get carried around with a master object (the application).