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I'm so happy to see it's still up and running. I was a HUGE fan of BeOS and to this day I wish it had won the Apple contract, though Next was obviously an amazing choice. I hope Haiku continues to succeed!

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BeOS was ahead of its time, that's for sure. One thing it did exceptionally well was multitasking. Even if you had a intensive task running in the background, you would never notice any lag whatsoever in the GUI. Windows/Linux/etc on the same hardware would lag horribly when doing the exact same tasks. I understand many aspects of the OS and GUI toolkit was multi-threaded (as BeOS was designed to run on, and take advantage of, systems with multiple cores). To this day there is no OS that handles multitasking as gracefully as BeOS did. I still remain disappointed that it did not see much success as it had so much potential.

You mean as threads used to gracefully crash each other?

BeOS was an interesting OS, 20 years ago, its time is due, API frozen and just like Oberon and Amiga, only usefull for nostalgic purposes.

Frozen APIs are a blessing, not a curse. The only way forward is to constrain developers to a well-known standard set of tools and interfaces. We've seen what happens when they just get turned loose.

Yup! Honestly feels like the industry as a whole has lost the plot.

I have a Pentium here to sell, if you feel so inclined.

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