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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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