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by tambourine_man 1711 days ago
Oh yeah. I think about that all the time.

I’m thrilled that we have unix with nice GUI that runs Photoshop. That was always my dream machine as a kid.

But boy, was BeOS awesome. The most responsive OS I ever used. The priorities were set straight: user input is king, so is audio and video.

And the aesthetics matched my taste remarkably well. I always thought NeXT was hideous by comparison.