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Carbon sits on top of lower-level pieces - remember, we are talking about the guts of Mach and BSD and IO and drivers, not software that sits on top of it. There was definitely a Dock in NS :-)

May I ask, have you ever used a NS3.3 or 4.2 based system for any length of time?

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To get to the welcome to the Macintosh screen (per the original answer), we are talking about the software on top of it. Carbon was probably not an easy port (endian issues to start with) never mind the switch in vector units.

>Carbon sits on top of lower-level pieces - remember, we are talking about the guts of Mach and BSD and IO and drivers

No, we also talk about all the higher level stuff -- the post says that he showed them a booting OS X, with Aqua, Carbon, apps et al running normally. This is not just porting the lower levels, this is a full stack port of OS X to x86.

>*There was definitely a Dock in NS :-)(

Not the Dock.app. The tiled NS dock has nothing to do with the functionality and look of the OS X app, it's a completely different app.

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