Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: > I am sure that among GNOME and > GNU/Linux users we will find many people who thought things like OS/2, > Amiga OS and BeOS was the next big thing back in the day based on the > technical qualities of said systems. When I hear people singing MacOS X > praises today it seems to me its using the same tune as the praises sung > to those operating systems of yesteryear.
True up to a point, although MacOS in its various (and sometimes more usable than current) guises has been around since before any of those, and although you can't necessarily say it's "outlived" OS/2, BeOS, Workbench or GEM[1], it's certainly left them eating considerable dust, in terms of widespread adoption. Cheeri, Calum. [1] If you believe that a good OS never dies, it just stops being developed... -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
