Yeah, I'll concede that "decent" is too much credit. Even on "true multi user systems" the simplistic models *nix don't really work, and you end up seeing peopl

Yeah, I'll concede that "decent" is too much credit. Even on "true multi user systems" the simplistic models *nix don't really work, and you end up seeing people using combinations of virtual machines and containers as ham-fisted sandboxes. I was thinking of it more along the lines that it's at least kind of understandable for the average person. More so than some alternatives, at least. Still, I think it was a big oversight to provide nothing at all in BeOS. Maybe they could have come up with a better solution than the backwards-compatible status quo. Or maybe personal computers would have just been better off in an alternate timeline where networking wasn't as pervasive and we still got software on disks, and mailed off for a hard copy of GNU...