Opinions? BeOS

Bravo. I think that's probably the best summation of that I've read. Apple Confidential 2.0 talks in great detail about how Gassee blew the deal for BeOS and drove Apple into Jobs' offer instead. I do like BeOS, and one of these days I'll pick up a BeBox to play with. But I also agree that NeXTSTEP was the better choice. Heck, on all the ultrasound machines I've used up until about a year ago, the computers that downloaded them, read them and presented them to the viewer were all NeXTSTEP (on x86). That's spanning several hospitals over about a five year period. So, they're out there in the wild. ALi is gradually phasing them out and replacing them with conventional Wintel boxes, but the NeXT systems are still in wide use. -- ---------------------------------- personal: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Floodgap Systems Ltd * So. Calif., USA * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- "I'd love to go out with you, but I've dedicated my life to linguini." -----