NeXTSTEP was about the userspace, BeOS was about juicing the hardware.
Haiku has never been more relevant thanks to the raw MIGHT of 32 cores and 64 threads.
TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT
Isaiah Smith
Blake Evans
Haiku already has Qt and OpenJDK and Libreoffice. Mono port is in progress. Most Unix libraries compile unaltered so you can build a native Haiku GUI to them pretty easily.
Parker Murphy
Yeah, it was pretty cool. Remember this was 20 years ago and your options for an x86 OS were basically Windows and well, the Linux of 20 years ago. So right off the bat being able to run something “unique” as far as commodity x86 hardware is concerned was quite novel and cool for your average nerd.
But people are remembering it with rose-tinted glasses, for sure. It didn’t do anything particularly mind-blowing and there was even less software available than on Linux, if you can believe it.
Grayson Morris
>BeOS was about juicing the hardware.
In what way? All I can see mentioned is "multithreading".
Samuel Morgan
Don't care. It's shit while GenodeOS is not.