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> I often ponder how things would've been different if something more like them had taken off and become mainstream. IIRC, as it relates to BeOS, Apple was goi
by slantyyz 5y ago
> I often ponder how things would've been different if something more like them had taken off and become mainstream.
IIRC, as it relates to BeOS, Apple was going to acquire BeOS or NeXT and opted for NeXT.
If Apple had gone with BeOS, the computing world would probably be a very different place today, given all the great things Apple did after Steve Jobs came back.
An alternate reality where Apple acquires BeOS over NeXT does make for an interesting "what if" story though.
- Grazester 5y agoBeOS was not as stable and complete an OS as NexTSTEP. It would have taken longer for Apple to launch their version of the OS and Apple was in a hole in the late 90's. As you noted there would be no Jobs which came with the OS.
- jbverschoor 5y agoWe would have had someone with hard nipples :-D (JLG) The BeOS C++ api was nice to work with, and every little thing was a thread. I think if it became more mainstream we might have had a higher core-count. I wrote a simple windows implemention of the BApplication and BWindow etc. classes, which allowed me to compile to two platforms :-) I was very interested in OSes at the time, and ran BeOS at my job at DeltaKabel / Lucent