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> I don't think that BeOS was as mature as NextStep. It certainly was not. It was single user only - no way to log in with different users, no accounts, just
by MisterTea 2y ago
> I don't think that BeOS was as mature as NextStep.
It certainly was not. It was single user only - no way to log in with different users, no accounts, just a single default user.
Networking performance was awful in R3 and R4. In R5 they replaced the user space network stack with BONE, an in-kernel IP stack that promised better performance. By then, too late as the Palm sale was around the corner. I remember talking to JBQ (Jean-Baptiste Queru) on IRC about this and how that effected their micro-kernel design and JBQ stated that their claim of micro-kernel was for marketing purposes only.
It was a multimedia first system designed by multimedia geeks. Fun for its time and had a lot of great ideas.
- sillywalk 2y agoNitpick: BONE was part of R5.1 "Dano", which got leaked but never publicly released.
- memsom 2y agoNitpick, nitpick: BONE was actually a BETA for R5 also, but it was also never released. The Dano version was much more mature and Dano in general is a much later version of BeOS with a lot of changes under the hood.