Before the whole thing collapsed, I was using BeOS for my desktop at home and had a skunkworks project going on at work trying to demonstrate BeOS as platform f

Before the whole thing collapsed, I was using BeOS for my desktop at home and had a skunkworks project going on at work trying to demonstrate BeOS as platform for our diagnostic devices. We were transitioning from a 2-line, 32-char LCD display to QVGA colour touch screen and the experience was become painful. I really thought I had found a much better alternative than the RTEMS, VxWorks, and Windows based options we were looking at. And then it seemed like everything fell apart. I don't actually remember if it was Be Inc, or what I was working on and then where I was working that folded first but for me it was like a very long line of falling dominoes resulting in a lot of interesting and promising tech being abandoned. Worse, after all the dust settled in my professional career, all that was replaced with stuff with a lot more familiar names but that was more difficult to get right. It pains me to even say it but I worked on four projects over six or seven years that never made it out of R&D.