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There is no USP really... it's an OpenSource reimplementation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS (before your time?). Hai

There is no USP really... it's an OpenSource reimplementation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS (before your time?). Haiku has been around in some guise or other since the early 2000's. BeOS was/is pervasively threaded and took full advantage of multiple cores (a very novel thing when it came out - BeBox had two PPC processors). Similar projects include: ReactOS (Windows 2000), AROS (AmigaOS), FreeDOS (MS-DOS), FreeMiNT (Atari ST). I think there might even be one for OS/2

slantyyz 6y ago
For all intents and purposes, if you had no exposure to BeOS, you won't really get why this project exists. It is so crazy to think that we could be living in a completely different world today had Apple opted to acquire BeOS instead of NeXT.
- toyg 6y ago
  I suspect Apple would have struggled to attract the amount of developers they did, by moving to a non-unix systems; which in turn might have hampered their efforts on mobile.
  - slantyyz 6y ago
    Well the bigger impact is that Steve Jobs may not have ever returned to Apple.