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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

358 points ofalkaed | 4 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.617s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
1. nickthegreek ◴[11 Oct 25 23:45 UTC] No.45553794[source]▶
I was super excited for BeOS myself.
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2. walterbell ◴[12 Oct 25 00:48 UTC] No.45554102[source]▶
BeOS-lineage Binder IPC continues in Android.
3. Froedlich ◴[12 Oct 25 02:15 UTC] No.45554563[source]▶
I'm booting and running Haiku on my Thinkpad. It's a from-scratch workalike of BeOS, and able to run Be software. Though, frankly, Be software is totally 1990s, so a lot of Linux software written for Qt has been ported to Haiku.

In the end I wound up with basically the same application software as on my Debian desktop, except running on Haiku instead of Linux. Haiku is noticeably snappier and more responsive than Linux+X+Qt+KDE, though.

4. antod ◴[12 Oct 25 11:20 UTC] No.45557316[source]▶
I was a little surprised to have to scroll this far down to see BeOS come up. The first Amiga mention wasn't far above it either.