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Re:Gassée: Thank God Apple chose NeXT over my BeOS by pvg on Saturday November 12, 2011 @02:20PM (#3228616)
It really was a remarkable operating system, way, way ahead of its day.

As was NeXTSTEP. The difference being it was, by that point, a mature OS and framework set with a wide variety of actual deployed applications, cross-platform support, tooling. BeOS, in comparison, was a clever and incomplete tech demo. And Apple had no shortage of those (Copland, Taligent, SOM, OpenDoc, PowerTalk, etc, etc, etc). Buying another one would have been catastrophic.

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Re:Gassée: Thank God Apple chose NeXT over my BeOS by jonhendry on Saturday November 12, 2011 @11:36PM (#3229939)
" mature OS and framework set with a wide variety of actual deployed applications, cross-platform support, tooling."

And had been used in important roles in industry, particularly the financial industry.

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