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Re:A secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple bu... by gumby on Thursday March 19, 2020 @05:49PM (#22632123)
I agree -- I like Gasee and BeOS but there's no chance he would have managed to do the same with Apple. The modern Apple, like the original Apple, is Job's creation. In a way that very very few CEOs (who get all the credit regardless) can say.
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Re:A secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple bu... by sjwright on Friday March 20, 2020 @01:01AM (#22635064)
Indeed. BeOS would have made Macintosh as successful as the Amiga.
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Re:A secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple bu... by lproven on Saturday March 21, 2020 @06:56PM (#22650979)
A good, pithy summary.

BeOS was a beautiful OS, my favourite ever x86 OS.

But the _other_ key thing most people miss is that NeXT also had amazing, industry-beating development tools. Be didn't.

Both BeOS and NeXTstep were amazing OSes, but NeXT offered 2 other things as well as a great OS:

• best-of-breed dev tools, including Interface Builder

• Steve Jobs.

No contest, I'm afraid.

Even if personally I preferred BeOS.

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