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Let's pretend we are in an alternate reality

BeOS. I'd love having all of my software boxes having "BeWare" plastered on the outside.:D

I remember when BeOS was demoed years ago, when OSX was still called NeXT Step. It booted up in 10 seconds on a PPC 601.:eek: It took the first iteration of OSX over a nearly 2 minutes on the same hardware. And BeOS ran fast, fast, fast.
 
Sorry, I'm on hiatus from thinking about alternate realities. The Lost finale has put me on overload and I can't think beyond my own reality at this moment. :D
 
Desktop: Custom built machine with Gentoo provided that someone set up the OS for me
Laptop: Lenovo X201s with Ubuntu. I want a reliable UNIX-based OS for on-the-go computing. Actually Chrome OS might suffice.
Mobile: Dell Streak. It's such a beast. :D
 
Windows XP, next to OSX (it gets better every revision IMO) its the best OS going. There's nothing that Windows 7 does over XP that I need, so I'll take XP for its performance, footprint and boot times.
 
No Apple -> no widespread GUI -> no BeOS, Linux etc as we know it
No Apple -> no windows - > no xp
No Apple -> no NeXT -> no world wide web
No Apple -> no Newton -> no pda -> no iPhone -> no smartphones

Result? Which color of Command line text are YOU using?

=p
 
Consultant said:
No Apple -> no widespread GUI -> no BeOS, Linux etc as we know it
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Yeah, but GEM would still have appeared, albeit without the Macintosh influences, as it was based on the same Xerox work as the Lisa.

Maybe we'd now all be using Atari STs.
 
Consultant said:
Atari GUI / GEM was released after Apple released the GUI Mac...

Drag-and-drop, pull down menus, clipboard & various GUI conventions were invented by Apple:
http://obamapacman.com/2010/03/myth-copyright-theft-apple-stole-gui-from-xerox-parc-alto/4/
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Yes, and Apple sued Digital Research because GEM had aped the Macintosh System closely.

DR had already started work on a GUI based on PARC's work prior to the release of the Macintosh. Apple's work steered them in a different direction, but they would have still delivered a GUI without Apple.
 
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