Neal Stephenson Out-Takes by MatthewsP

Question 7

In "In the Beginning...Was the Command Line", Stephenson likened this operating system to a "Batmobile", as opposed to the "station wagon" metaphor he used for Windows. *Name this OS*, which Apple nearly acquired to replace its old MacOS before turning to NeXT instead, and which was resurrected as the open source OS Haiku.

BeOS

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