http://www.haiku-os.org/

[kee nethery]

My understanding was that BeOS had few drivers and few protocol stacks whereas the NeXT Mach version of Unix had everything. BeOS was very shiny but not full featured. Unix rugged robust reliable but not sexy. From what I recall, it was not price, it was time to market with an OS that could match the functionality of Mac OS 9 plus be so much more. And, think of all the apps already available for Unix as compared to BeOS.

BeOS was very cool, very nice, but it was missing a ton of functionality in day to day getting stuff done. Plus Gasse is a good salesman but not the equal to Jobs. No one talks about a Gasse Reality Distortion Field.

Kee

On Nov 17, 2012, at 5:27 PM, "Dr. Hawkins" <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Richard Gaskin
> <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
>> Haiku had potential back when it was still BeOS and was being considered for
>> Apple's replacement for what we now call Mac Classic.
> 
> It would have been used, too, except that Be thought they had Apple
> over a barrel.
> 
> OK, they kind of did, but for that barrel price, Apple discovered that
> they could buy Jobs, err, NeXT . . . which was for all intents and
> purposes, the end of Be.
> 
> 
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> (702) 508-8462
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