http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1450

How did you vote?

The only OS on that list that I've used was BeOS and I didn't have a fun time with it. Extremely limited hardware support (Network card? What's that? USB keyboard? Huh?). I did like the look and feel of the OS, though. It might have had promise at one point.

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NeXTSTEP. It's philosophy of using multiple general purpose CPU's to do *everything* was an incredibly cool idea.

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What is apple's operating system called (forbidden knowledge to a mere Church of the saviours Gates and Gore acolyte like myself)?

The Gates steamroller, powered by Gore's fire, will crush Apple like the roach colony that they are!

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Darwin?

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yeah Next.

Isn't BeOS still around, or did Gasse get eaten, or feck now I have to look it up (they sold out to Palm or what?...never mind I do NOT want to know).

Wait. I change my mind. I vote Multics. YAY.

Except I didn't really vote because I am cretaceous.

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Be sold all their intellectual property to Palm. I found a BeOS trial install-thing on download.com one time, and Kuggles has a BeOS R5 (I think) install (he was supposed to send me a copy, that bastid).

There is a project underway called OpenBeOS which is going to try and resurrect Be. They are basing their kernel off of NextOS which is being written by a former Be engineer.

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If you want a CD (burned) of BeOS R5 Pro, let me know. The personal edition crap was just that, crap.

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Wait. I change my mind. I vote Multics. YAY.

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ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!

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<3 mutant bunny pwn 4ll

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You know, I was tempted. But Plan9, which I think took the core ideas of Multics and implemented it somewhat more elegantly, has a way cuter mascot. Who can resist a mutant bunny like creature? Not me!

But Plan9 was automatically scratched simply because it is possibly the most pain in the butt OS to develop on if you don't have a traditional CS degree.

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Oick your favourite non-MS OS (I know it seems like a logical nonsense, but try), so that I can relay the information to the bosses and they can set out to destroy it.

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You knew that it had to be.

"The Plan 9 operating system, named for the science-fiction cult movie "Plan 9 From Outer Space," was designed by the inventors of the UNIX® system, a widely used operating system created at Bell Labs 25 years ago."

http://www.lucent.com/press/0795/950718.bla.html

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I said OS/2, but I never used any of them, so it was kinda random

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At&T wireless customer service centers use NeXT.

-m

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NeXT was supposed to evolve into OS X (back when they were calling it Rhapsody) before they went with the NetBSD-based Darwin. I guess things got behind schedule (like, what, four years behind schedule?) so they made the switch.

The OS X Finder is supposedly a ton like NeXT. but i really wouldn't know.

and OS/2 is used by a lot of diebold ATMs. I saw one crash and watched it go through the whole OS/2 boot process.

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NeXT's biggest weakness was using Objective C as it's primary developement language. Some people seem to be able to cope with doing OO in C, but it leaves the vast majority of programmers in a cold sweat.

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is Cocoa evolved or any better, or is it the same as NeXT?

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It's, AFAIK, 90% based on NeXT's graphical core. So it's still largely a O-C developement enviroment. Don't quote me on this though, as my knowledge of things MacOS is somewhat lacking.

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