bedrock was a joint effort by apple computer and symantec to produce a cross platform programming framework for writing applications on the apple macintosh and microsoft windows platforms. the project was a failure for a variety of reasons, and after delivering a developer preview version the project was abandoned in late 1993. ==history== ===background=== bedrock started as an internal effort at symantec in the early 1990s. at the time many of symantec's products ran on both mac and windows, and what would become bedrock was originally an internal set of tools intended to ease the effort of keeping both platforms up to date. in 1991, apple released the 3.0 version of its own development environment, mpw, along with its own object framework, macapp.chris knepper, "approaching macapp 3.0", frameworks, volume 5 issue 2 (february 1991) mpw was a command-line driven system that was "unloved". macapp 3.0 was a major upgrade from previous versions, porting from object pascal to c++, a move that left it largely incompatible with the previous version, as well as causing considerable consternation in the mac developer community. symantec was also the supplier of the then-premier development platform on the mac, think c. this was a gui-based environment which included an application framework of its own, the think class library (tcl). think c/tcl had garnered a considerable following in the mac community, especially during the macapp 3.0 era. to remain competitive, at some point mpw would have to be replaced with something much more similar to think. throughout this period, microsoft windows was first starting its rise in popularity. cross-platform development systems had been developed, but to this time they tended to be relatively simple, delivering least-common-denominator applications. a cross-platform system that delivered first-rate solutions was something of a holy grail during this time. ===bedrock=== the first mention of a collaboration between apple and symantec was mentioned in the flier for wwdc '92. the companies talked about it very briefly at the show, calling it cross platform framework and mentioning that more would be revealed at the pc expo show in june. this was greeted with considerable interest in the press.gary ray, "symantec, apple team on tools", computerworld, 17 may 1993, p. 8mary kathleen flynn, "tools for windows-mac development", pc mag, 15 september 1992, p. 33paul karon, [http://books.google.ca/bo
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