The BeOS bible

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… system and the way its advanced capabilities were fully utilized throughout the OS was also novel. Here is part of an old article written by Scot Hacker, who also wrote the BeOS Bible, which explain some of the advantages: http://www.osnews.com/story/421/_I_MacOSX_Week_I_Tales_of_a_... Much of what the BeOS had going for it is now available in other OSes, in various shapes or forms, but what made the BeOS such a joy to use was how it all came together in a unified way. The Tracker, for example, which is the equivalent to Finder on Mac OS X, treated attributes as first-class citizens, making it very natural to set up views like the example in the article above, focusing on Category, Title etc. Another thing that really stood out was the quality of the icons and the look of the window manager. The icons are everywhere on the web today, and…