> 25 years ago there was an avalanche of new operating systems
Which ones? I can only think of maybe Microsoft Singularity in 2003, and hobby OS Syllable. Neither were particularly innovative - the managed code thing had been done before with Inferno, and Syllable was heavily inspired by BeOS.
> Stratus was the hardware fault tolerant company. Tandem, our arch rivals, did software fault tolerance. Our architecture was “pair and spare”.
To expand on this, when Tandem switched MIPS from their proprietary processors, the CPUs were duplicated on a board and compared, and if they disagreed, the logical CPU would halt, similar to Stratus. The software-pair backup processes in a different logical CPU would then take over.
> Just confirms that BeOS had the right windowing features all along.
Which windowing features are you referring to? I recall with BeOS (and I assume Haiku) you could shift-click on the "yellow window tab" to move it along the top of windows, so you could have multiple windows stacked, but with their tabs visible on the top, but I don't recall a split-view.
And the silly thing is, as ridiculous as they are for mouse click/drag or touch use, those kind of dial controls are actually reasonable when coupled to a scroll wheel (like you can do in GNURadio). But Apple has never wavered from "one mouse button and nothing else is good enough for everybody," and scroll wheels aren't really an option for a touch interface.
Ah yes, skeuomorphic design, where you take something that's a physical artefact of the hardware and force-fit it onto an utterly different device on which it makes no sense whatsoever.
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