[perl4ever]

It was when the A3000 came out that Macs started looking more attractive to me. Originally, it was like "4096 colors, cool!" but once high resolution screens became more common, flickering interlace mode and 16 colors was underwhelming.

16 bit color made HAM irrelevant and was more exciting than pre-emptive multitasking and graphic acceleration.

BeOS was almost acquired by Apple to replace the Mac OS, but it wasn't, and it makes you wonder how history would have been different.

[pjmlp]

Indeed, it would have been mostly C++ based, and not offer the scenario of buying Apple systems as pretty UNIX, as big alternative universe.

Ironically there was a group of engineers at Commodore that was big into trying to merge Amiga OS and UNIX.

"VCFMW 11 - Bil Herd: Tales From Inside Commodore"

https://youtu.be/-Zpv6u5vCJ4