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wvenable on July 3, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Windows malloc() implementation from MSVCRT is...

Apple wanted to force Cocoa on everyone but had to delay their OS an entire year to build Carbon so that developers would actually port their Mac apps to OS X.

assttoasstmgr on July 3, 2022 [–]

A number of Apple's original core apps (like iTunes, AppleWorks, etc.) were Carbonized apps.

kccqzy on July 3, 2022 | [–]

Finder was Carbon until 10.6. It's probably a message to show developers that Apple was serious about Carbon.

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