Re:The Dawn of Haiku OS (2012)
by Grazester on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:23PM
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BeOS was not as stable and complete an OS as NexTSTEP.
It would have taken longer for Apple to launch their version of the OS and Apple was in a hole in the late 90's.
As you noted there would be no Jobs which came with the OS.
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Re:The Dawn of Haiku OS (2012)
by jbverschoor on Thursday June 24, 2021 @05:51PM
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We would have had someone with hard nipples :-D (JLG)
The BeOS C++ api was nice to work with, and every little thing was a thread. I think if it became more mainstream we might have had a higher core-count.
I wrote a simple windows implemention of the BApplication and BWindow etc. classes, which allowed me to compile to two platforms :-) I was very interested in OSes at the time, and ran BeOS at my job at DeltaKabel / Lucent