9 Dec
2007
9 Dec
'07
1:50 p.m.
In article <006701c83aa7$5f230860$c600a8c0 at game>,
"Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> writes:
NEXTstep was a finished OS that just needed ported,
BEOS was a work in
progress that needed more work (networking etc). It came down to Gassee
wanting too much cash and Jobs being a better bullshitter.
A fair enough assessment, but the main point I wanted to make is that
it wasn't just Unix and Windows that passed on the ideas in BeOS. It
was everyone.
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