Re:Gassée: Thank God Apple chose NeXT over my BeOS
by lcargill99 on Saturday November 12, 2011 @11:00AM
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iZ Corporation's RADAR runs on BeOS. It's a DAW system of exceedingly high quality. We can only guess how well it'd scale, but Be looks to me not to be the sort of software that helps sell hardware.
Re:Gassée: Thank God Apple chose NeXT over my BeOS
by tambourine_man on Saturday November 12, 2011 @09:59PM
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Almost nothing runs great on that many cores.
Certainly not Xnu.
I think the best answer is BeOS wasn't as complete as NeXT. Specifically it had a fairly poor network stack (it was being retooled around the time BeOS became part of palm, no idea if it was finished)
It lacked the kind of print support MacOS and NeXT had. It lacked the same caliber of internationalization. All fixable stuff but also all stuff requiring some investment.
It also remains to be seen how well BeOS would actually scale, it was an RTOS with a UI, it could absolutely do sexy stuff on low powered machines of the day, that doesn't mean it could run a 12core dual i7 machine well. Maybe it could, we really don't know.