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Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X by TheCondor on Thursday January 09, 2020 @10:55PM (#22008198)
Security, networking, multiuser, i10n, print (don’t even begin to underestimate this and quartz and display postscript) beos was an rtos with a neat UI. it was still fun but there was a gigantic pile of work before it could do what system 7 did, let alone what next did.
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Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X by jonhendry18 on Friday January 10, 2020 @01:09AM (#22008717)
Additionally, NeXTStep had been in use in production on investment bank trading floors, in scientific institutions, and in military/intelligence agencies. It wasn't widely used, but it was used.

So while it might not have been quite ready for the median System 7 user's expectations, it was pretty solid.

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Re:BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X by ngcc_hk on Friday January 10, 2020 @04:29AM (#22009654)
May be so. But I have Mac OS 1.0 running on my MacBook. It is so slow and really not that working. Unlike the Mac OS 9. It is not that smooth. Luckily he found iPod ... even the colour one is very slow.
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