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Re:Firing Frankness by protomyth on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @07:52PM (#18712056)
Having both a BeOS box and NeXTSTEP box at the time, I was pretty glad they picked NeXT. I love BeOS, but NeXTSTEP was the superior OS on the whole including development story. BeOS had some really great line items, but it had some big holes too. Be just didn't have the time to get it all done.

That being said, I do wish Haiku well because I get the feeling that it really could be great.

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Re:Firing Frankness by setpatchaddress on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:15AM (#18713493)
One of the big marks against BeOS in that fight was the lack of printer support. That sort of thing still mattered in 1996-1997.

I don’t know. A BeOS-based MacOS would’ve been ready for prime time years before Mac OS X was. And one suspects the Finder would have been usable. But there would be no iPhone.

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Re:Firing Frankness by protomyth on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @01:39AM (#18713581)
A BeOS-based MacOS would’ve been ready for prime time years before Mac OS X was.

I'm not so sure. NeXTSTEP was pretty stable. I get the feeling that a lot of the delay had little to do with NeXTSTEP and much more to do with Apple and Adobe/Microsoft. Plus, the development environment was no where near as good on BeOS.

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Re:Firing Frankness by waddlesplash on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @08:43PM (#18712353)
Or you could do more than wish Haiku well and give us a hand developing it :)
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Re:Firing Frankness by protomyth on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @09:14PM (#18712476)
I have my own dream these days.
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