Talk:Extension conflict

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is part of WikiProject Macintosh. This means that the WikiProject has identified it as an article pertaining to Apple Computer, but is not currently working to improve it. WikiProject Macintosh itself is an attempt to improve, grow, standardize, and attain featured status for Wikipedia's articles related to Apple Macintosh and Apple Computer. We need all your help, so join in today!
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the assessment scale.

"Extension conflicts came to an end with the release of Mac OS X, which does not use extensions."

Then what do we call a kext? Isn't that an extension of a sort?

"Especially System 7": As I recall, extensions were not a problem under System 7. The extensions supplied with the system were few and well named, so by glancing over your extensions folder, you knew what was going on in there. However, beginning with Mac OS 7.5.3 (which introduced OpenTransport), the system of shared libraries (such as OpenTransport) began to spread to the Mac OS and installers started to dump dozens of vaguely named things (which usually didn't bear a comment tag of any value) into the extensions folder. By MacOS 8.5 / 9, the extensions folder indeed had become an enigma that for the first time temped MacOS-users to "clean install" their system because of the appearently impossible task of tidying up this mess.