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jbz
@jbz@indieweb.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

🔮 The Great Illusion: When We Believed BeOS Would Save the World (And Maybe It Was Right) – Desktop On Fire!

「 Imagine: instead of OS X based on NeXTSTEP, we would have had an Apple system based on BeOS. No decades-old Unix cruft, no Mach kernel heavy as an elephant, but an operating system born for multimedia, elegant as a Lamborghini and fast as… well, as a Lamborghini 」

https://www.desktoponfire.com/haiku_inc/782/the-great-illusion-when-we-believed-beos-would-save-the-world-and-maybe-it-was-right/

#beos #haikuos #retrocomputing

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Michael Engel
@me_@sueden.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@jbz This wouldn't be without problems. One of those is the lack of stability of the BeOS C++ APIs, see https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/the-impending-abi-apocalypse-if-i-understand-it-correctly/12380/10
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