I have been puzzled about something for a while. Why do people assume that BeOS was the greatest thing since sliced bread, that was defeated by an evil conspiracy? The author of the linked article is a technical writer that likely understands exactly zero about OS internals.
BeOS was heavily influenced by Unix, and was no more built from scratch than NT, which was developed at roughly the same time. Why then do so many whine about the loss of BeOS, while penning an article on NT?
It is ridiculous the number of people who assume that BeOS had the finest SMP support to be found, simply because BeBoxes came with two cpus.
I have studied BeOS is some detail, and read a number of papers, published by its original architects. Despite NT’s many architectural advantages over BeOS, the nostalgia continues.