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Jean-Louis Gassée is on the record saying Apple made the right choice. Gil Amelio thought the 20th Anniversary Macintosh was really awesome and clones were a g
by itomato 9y ago
Jean-Louis Gassée is on the record saying Apple made the right choice.
Gil Amelio thought the 20th Anniversary Macintosh was really awesome and clones were a good idea.
With (seriously cash strapped) Apple doubling down on Multimedia on rebranded BeOS as a licensed OS for Clones, they would have gone head-to-head with the entirety of the PC market that already had a taste of BeOS.
BeOS was quick and fun, but barely had a TCP/IP stack. See BONE.
Apple probably would have switched to Intel earlier.
- qubex 9y agoMy BeBox running BeOS5 has been happily participating in TCP/IP (v4) communications on my home Ethernet network for twenty years. (Admittedly it’s off most of the time these days because I’m concerned about the health of the hard-drive, but still.) It even ran a web-server for a decade with uptimes measured in years. (I had an amateur radiotelescope wired up to the GeekPort and exposed the controls over HTTP. I’ve long since retired that setup in favour of a modern SDR linked to a Raspberry Pi 3.)