[SqueakAudio] Re: a bit of Mac midi news

[Leigh Smith]

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ly><param>Helvetica</param>http://www.maccentral.com/news/0002/11.leishman=
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<italic></italic></color>"Doug Wyatt, the "father" of OMS, has been =
hired by Apple. He'll be =
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<italic></italic></color>on "OS level MIDI services independent of =
former duties at Opcode." =
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<italic></italic></color>just might mean that Apple will have a much =
easier time integrating =
MIDI</fontfamily><fontfamily><param>Helvetica</param><color><param>0000,00=
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<italic></italic></color>and OMS-like capabilities into OS X. Thus =
enabling many of us to breathe =
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<italic></italic></color>sigh of relief about the future. =
Congratulations to all are in order. =
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<italic></italic></color>So it may be that Apple are looking to fold =
true MIDI support into the =
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</color>Perhaps the Squeak community may not be aware that the MusicKit =
(Objective-C) is running on MacOsX-Server now with MIDI (Mac Serial, not =
yet USB) I/O.=20


http://www.tomandandy.com/MusicKit


Admittedly it's not OMS, but it is cross-platform =
(OpenStep/MacOsX/Win98/Linux) and unencumbered open-source.=20


Given the shared object paradigm between SmallTalk and Objective-C, this =
codebase may be useful for Squeak.


Regards</fontfamily>


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