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Consider also that basically every single ground up "we are rethinking everything, and doing it right this time" OS rebuild from scratch has been a failure. The

by throwaway2048 8y ago

Consider also that basically every single ground up "we are rethinking everything, and doing it right this time" OS rebuild from scratch has been a failure. There have been dozens, if not hundreds of examples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#Development_reset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#Development_rese... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiuser_DOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiuser_DOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system)

machinecoffee 8y ago
I would argue that BeOS was not a failure as an OS, but it was a failure in the market where it couldn't find a clear place for itself, and was attempting to break into a market pretty much totally dominated by MS at the time. Remember in the time of home computers, there were many good Systems that were pretty much from scratch implementations (Amiga, GEM and Archimedes) so the idea of creating a totally new OS against the incumbents (Windows and OSX) is not totally pointless.