<story><title>The BeOS file system: an OS geek retrospective</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/the-beos-filesystem.ars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tambourine_man</author><text>BeOS was the greatest experience I&apos;ve ever had with an OS.&lt;p&gt;It felt faster booted from a ZIP Drive on a 160MHz PPC with 192MB of RAM than my machine feels today, and this is not an overstatement. There wasn&apos;t a single click that didn&apos;t instantly produce a response.&lt;p&gt;Everybody points to iOS&apos;s design, but to me, one of the reasons for its success is that a system that fits in your pocket feels faster than the one at your desk.&lt;p&gt;If more people had been exposed to it back then, maybe we wouldn&apos;t put up with today&apos;s software as it is.</text></comment>
<story><title>The BeOS file system: an OS geek retrospective</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/the-beos-filesystem.ars</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cpt1138</author><text>I worked with the Be guys when they were bought by Palm. Never in my career have I experienced such an obsession with solving problems no one has. To me its kind of sad so much obviously raw talent wasted on such frivolous effort.</text></comment>