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by pjmlp 84 days ago
It certainly is, what it is not, is a derivative.

BeOS on its final commercial version certainly did not allow to compile UNIX applications, beyond the common surface that is part of ISO C and ISO C++ standard library.

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maybe in early BeOS versions but, BeOS R5 especially with the BONE updates had a fairly decent POSIX compatibility for the time. If you do "ls /" you can see immediatly BeOS has some BSD reminiscence, but certainly it isn't a UNIX OS as in itself.