Linked by Nicholas Blachford on Tue 13th Jul 2004 21:56 UTC
After personal computers arrived in the 1970's they went through a series of revolutionary changes delivered by a series of different platforms. It's been over a decade since we've seen anything truly revolutionary, will we see a revolution again? I believe we could not only see revolution again, we could build it today.
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I really don't know if I would regard BeOS as revolutionary. BeOS did a lot of things right. I still marvel at the ease of use, when I boot it. But most of its strength comes from being legacy free. Starting from a clean slate and doing it right.
Personally I think NeXTStep 5 years earlier were more revoulutionary in terms of API and GUI. Had NeXTStep only had the Be filesystem...