Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Apr 2007 21:00 UTC
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2005-07-06
Kurt never claimed that he didn't read the BeBook. The high level API's are very clearly inspired by BeOS and AFS was written after Kurt had read Practical Filesystem Design; written by the same man who wrote BeFS.
But none of that means that the very first versions of AtheOS (In fact it would have been named AltOS this far back) were started and perhaps even running before the BeBox was shipped. Kurt was working on AtheOS for a very long time before he even made the first public release, and we know that the GUI was re-written at least once in that time. The previous GUI was written in C and would have been nothing like the Be API.
So the statement from the FAQ is correct.