3 ms·

I ran BeOS and NeXTStep on my PC back around this time. BeOS was impressive and I do not think anyone has come close to it's speed even today. The filesystem wa

I ran BeOS and NeXTStep on my PC back around this time. BeOS was impressive and I do not think anyone has come close to it's speed even today. The filesystem was amazing. That being said, I loved NeXTStep and was happy to see it live on. I wish the OS X version was more NeXT then Mac, i.e., I want my menus and shelf like NeXT. I think however that Steve was a larger key to Apples success then the OS. Apple would have been dead without him.

danieldk 9y ago
The filesystem was amazing. Interesting tidbit: Dominic Giampaolo, who was one of the main developers of BeFS is now engineer on the APFS team [1]. [1] http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/ http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/
- amelius 9y ago
  He wrote a book about BeFS. I wonder if he'd be allowed to do the same at Apple. (Somehow, I doubt it.)
  - deleted 9y ago
    [deleted]
  - GuiA 9y ago
    Well, he might not get to write a book, but he gets to design a brand new filesystem currently used by hundreds of millions, soon to be billions, of devices. Everything in life has tradeoffs :)
  - fermigier 9y ago
    http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf if you are interested. It's obviously dated (1998) but still an entertaining, and insightful, read.