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BeOS lives on. Relevant quote from Neil Stephenson’s In the Beginning was the Command Line [1], a fun commentary on early Mac, Windows, Linux, and BeOS competition.

”On the other side of the road are two competitors that have come along more recently.

One of them (Be, Inc.) is selling fully operational Batmobiles (the BeOS). They are more beautiful and stylish even than the Euro-sedans, better designed, more technologically advanced, and at least as reliable as anything else on the market--and yet cheaper than the others.

With one exception, that is: Linux…”

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt

parent halfcat 2 years ago

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