Back in the day, when Be made multi processor machines and was focusing on the PPC portion of there code there was a time when Apple wanted to buy BeOS and make it "OSX". Somehow the deal didnt go through (I suspect BE wanted way too much money, as they suspected they would be the next dominate OS at the time) and Apple bought Next.
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Back in the day, when Be made multi processor machines and was focusing on the PPC portion of there code there was a time when Apple wanted to buy BeOS and make it "OSX".
Somehow the deal didnt go through (I suspect BE wanted way too much money, as they suspected they would be the next dominate OS at the time) and Apple bought Next.