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0 pointsmilquetoastaf7y ago0 comments

BeOS is the silent master we can all learn from

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IIRC it still looked very Unix'ish once you dropped into the shell.

pjmlp7y ago

As much as Windows NT with POSIX personallity.

It ran bash, sure, but BeOS was not similar to Unix at all.

It had the coreutils, glibc, it used UNIX filemodes and the fork() process model, "/dev", etc. So, how exactly was it not a UNIX?

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IIRC it still looked very Unix'ish once you dropped into the shell.

pjmlp7y ago

As much as Windows NT with POSIX personallity.

It ran bash, sure, but BeOS was not similar to Unix at all.

It had the coreutils, glibc, it used UNIX filemodes and the fork() process model, "/dev", etc. So, how exactly was it not a UNIX?

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