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> Question for you OS geeks: did we take the good things learned from BeOS and implement them in Windows/Linux/macOS? Somewhat of an aside, but I wish there ex
by tablespoon 5y ago
> Question for you OS geeks: did we take the good things learned from BeOS and implement them in Windows/Linux/macOS?
Somewhat of an aside, but I wish there existed a kind of "encyclopedia" of operating system features (both UI and otherwise, with a special emphasis on "dead ends" like BeOS), that pulled together demos and documentation into one exhaustive reference.
It seems like a lot of good ideas get lost is the sea of lowest common denominator solutions, and an ecyclopedic reference would make it easier to resurrect those ideas.
- thequux 5y agoI tried to start a talk series last year about these dead ends, but only https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-525180-what_have_we_lost https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-525180-what_have_we_lost actually made it out. Perhaps I'll pick up the thread later, because there are a lot of dead ends that had some amazing ideas that it either wasn't the right time for (BeOS, DomainOS), bad business decisions (Genera), or particularly insular communities where they were used (OS/400, TRON)
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agohttps://archiveos.org/ https://archiveos.org/ is kind of a step in that direction, although not exactly the same
- hackmiester 5y agoTry this: http://toastytech.com/guis/index.html http://toastytech.com/guis/index.html