So, what benefits will Haiku have when it's released?

I feel like there's simply no point in trying to maintain compatibility with BeOS. BeOS was never very popular in the first place so I seriously doubt there's a lot of worthwhile software out there. It would probably be better if they just focused on making their own modern APIs.

Now if someone made a modern re-implementation of Classic MacOS that would be worthwhile effort because there's a ton of software out there especially games but also professional software.

Anonymous 2016-09-17 00:58:50 Post No.56638467
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Anonymous 2016-09-17 00:58:50 Post No.56638467 [Report]

>>56638391
Probably would get sued attempting to do that

Anonymous 2016-09-17 01:00:47 Post No.56638496
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Anonymous 2016-09-17 01:00:47 Post No.56638496 [Report]

>>56638391
Apple should really open source their legacy OSs, everything pre osx.

Anonymous 2016-09-17 01:02:16 Post No.56638508
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Anonymous 2016-09-17 01:02:16 Post No.56638508 [Report]

>>56638496
>open source Mac OS fork
That'd be pretty damned neat

Anonymous 2016-09-17 01:59:56 Post No.56639108
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Anonymous 2016-09-17 01:59:56 Post No.56639108 [Report]

>>56638508
Probably the best solution is to try and reverse the carbon API and make a compatibility layer like WINE then it could be used on another more established OS and the devs of the API would be able to focus on making the API as compliant as possible.

Anonymous 2016-09-17 02:28:21 Post No.56639421
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Anonymous 2016-09-17 02:28:21 Post No.56639421 [Report]

>>56639108
I can't see any reason apple wouldn't just release the source to OS9. OS X is currently open source via Darwin.

How much technology from Mac os9 still exists in modern OS X? What reason could they have for not releasing it, the cost of releasing it?

Anonymous 2016-09-17 02:56:45 Post No.56639705
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Anonymous 2016-09-17 02:56:45 Post No.56639705 [Report]

>>56639421
>OS X is currently open source via Darwin.
Most of it is but the graphical stuff is proprietary.

>How much technology from Mac os9 still exists in modern OS X?
OSX 10.4 or earlier supported Classic applications through a virtual machine like "XP mode" in windows 7. That was removed in 10.5 when Apple moved on to Intel/x86. I think the Carbon API is the only thing left and that is not actually directly compatible with classic applications but it's similar enough that classic applications can be easily ported to it with few modifications.

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Anonymous 2016-09-17 03:41:52 Post No.56640236 [Report]

>>56637550
>when it's released
that's like asking when wine will be perfect, or when reactos will reach function parity with windows

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>>56637550
it will be "more real-time" than modern windows and unixes.

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