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> There must be a name for the logical fallacy I see whenever someone pines over a past "clearly superior" technology that wasn't adopted or had its project can
by AshamedCaptain 3y ago
> There must be a name for the logical fallacy I see whenever someone pines over a past "clearly superior" technology that wasn't adopted or had its project cancelled, but I can never think of it. I guess the closest thing to it is an unfalsifiable statement.
You can run Haiku today, so it's hardly unfalsifiable, nor an effect of nostalgia or whatever way you want to phrase it.
> BeOS? Impressive technology demo. Missing loads of features expected in a modern OS, even at that time. No multi-user model even!
"Even at that time" is just false. multi-user safe OSes abound in the 90s?
- dihrbtk 3y agoWindows NT...?
- ris 3y ago> You can run Haiku today, so it's hardly unfalsifiable Excellent, so let's falsify it: how come 20 years later the best thing people really have to say about BeOS/Haiku is that is has smooth window dragging? > multi-user safe OSes abound in the 90s? Windows NT. Linux and at least two other free unixes. Countless proprietary unixes. VMS. The widespread desktop OSs in the 90s were not considered serious OSs even then, more accidents of backward-compatibility needs.
- tialaramex 3y agoThe thing about Haiku is that their plan (initially as "OpenBeOS") was since they're just re-doing BeOS and some of BeOS is Open Source they'll just get some basics working then they're right back on the horse and in a few years they'll be far ahead of where BeOS was. Over two decades later they don't have a 1.0 release.