beos

BeOS died, not on any technical merits, but because Microsoft forced it out via other means.

Apple's been doing a credible job of duplicating the features of BeOS in MacOS X, with the help of some key BeOS refugees (notably Dominic Giampaolo).

Hitachi did ship a line of machines (the Flora Prius) with BeOS pre-installed, but made changes to the bootloader -- rendering BeOS invisible to the consumer -- before shipping.

This anti-competitive move meant alternative operating systems, like BeOS, or OS2/Warp, or even Linux weren't really an option.

By the way, he does mention that he implemented that too in Beos in California...

Indeed, around 1999 a young company was trying to popularize its new operating system: BeOS.

Taken together, pre-installation arrangements with vendors of this magnitude could have had a major impact on the future of Be and BeOS.

What were some of the main reasons that made QNX and BeOS fast?

But of the four, only Hitachi actually shipped a machine with BeOS pre-installed.

Now I have multiple offsite backups of thousands of installers and patches for many different platforms - even BeOS DR8!

For BeOS, was it that the OS took advantage of asynchronous execution?

There are people working on BeOS revival: Haiku OS, they would (rightfully) quite annoyed if vim dropped support for the OS they're trying to resurrect..