"BeOS: The Alternate Universe’s Mac OS X"

A nice article by Erin Pinheiro just posted on Hackaday.com. Recommended reading for anyone interested in UI and system design, Op Systems, evolution of comp tech.

https://hackaday.com/2020/01/09/beos-the-alternate-universes-mac-os-x/

"Meet The BeOS
Could you imagine emailing someone a video file in 1995? Be Inc. did.

BeOS was, at the time, a foray into a new way of doing home computing. The features it introduced that were brand new at the time are now ubiquitous — things such as preemptive multitasking, journaling filesystems and an uncluttered desktop design.

In a way, it was forward-thinking enough that if you look at a screenshot of it today you’d swear it was just any other modern Linux environment, ’90s graphical aesthetic aside. "