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Old 05-24-2005, 03:28 AM
Janak Parekh
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Originally Posted by Chris Spera
This is just me, but I think they need to scrap OS6 and start from scratch. They need to add all of the wonderful things that Ed mentions, like pre-emptive multi-tasking and a real file system, before they're going to have something to compete against WM2003SE and WM5.
I bet, behind the scenes, that their Linux strategy is doing exactly this. If they keep stuff from OS6, it sounds like it'll be the high-level stuff - UIs and APIs. What saddens me is to see the total downfall of the BeOS kernel, which was supposed to be an amazingly stable multitasking platform.

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