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pjmlp 15 hours ago [-]
While I would have rather seen a future where OS X is BeOS based, another desktop platform having C++ as key language, not being another UNIX clone, the reality is that without the reverse acquision of NeXT and Steve Jobs for the ride, leading to the iPod and iMac G3, Apple would have crashed really hard with what was left on the bank account.
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muro 16 hours ago [-]
Very enjoyable article. Never had a Be box, but used beos a bit around 2000 - when it was free to download. It felt great, shame there were no apps. Maybe if vibe coding was available then, it would have done much better.
Loved the hardware part of the story - I just got a mac studio on sale and after many years of laptops, remembered how much fun it is to have things on a desk, permanently connected. I was cleaning up my vintage hardware, selling some old MBs after all full PCs were gone - had two dual processor pentium pro and pentium II workstations. Connected a USB to SATA/IDE/floppy connector, went through all old HDDs before recycling them - was such a joy to have desk space, not just my portable do-it-all.
Anyway, computers should be fun and this story definitely brings that across. Thank you!
iberator 10 hours ago [-]
Check out HaikuOs :)
taolson 7 hours ago [-]
I remember a visit by Gasseé and a team of BeBox engineers to the PowerPC design center in Austin, where they demo'ed the yet-to-be released early version of the BeBox and OS. We were all duly impressed by the speed and responsiveness of the system. At one point they were demoing that it really was running multiple processors by opening a control panel that showed the processor activity, and clicking a button to disable one of the processors, which instantly doubled the load on the other processor. Someone in the crowd asked "What if you disable the other processor, too?", and they said "I don't know -- let's see." The system promptly crashed ;-)
Anyway, computers should be fun and this story definitely brings that across. Thank you!