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Now that would be an interesting alternate timeline! / MacBook Pro with Blinkenlights bar /

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• hasenj 10y ago
  The Mac would not have been a huge success probably in that scenario.
  • jacobush 10y ago
    You never know... Amiga diehards would have gone 100% Apple. Whether that's a good thing or not I don't know... :-)
  • jandrese 10y ago
    I don't know. A BeOS foundation for MacOS would have made it even better at multimedia production. The tradeoff of course is that it probably would have been late to the whole Internet thing that was becoming something of a big deal around that point. BeOS's network stack was different enough from Berkeley sockets that porting network apps was a challenge. It lacked a version of Netscape at a time when even FreeBSD had a native version for example. In the late 90s this was not acceptable. Apple's engineering culture wasn't one of embracing open standards either, they could have very well stuck with the Be network paradigm and made it a headache to port any POSIX application. Be's heavily multitasking kernel would have been quite a boon for Apple when off the shelf processors started going wide though. They could have been really reaping the benefits from C2Ds and beyond.