A good, pithy summary.

BeOS was a beautiful OS, my favourite ever x86 OS.

But the _other_ key thing most people miss is that NeXT also had amazing, industry-beating development tools. Be didn't.

Both BeOS and NeXTstep were amazing OSes, but NeXT offered 2 other things as well as a great OS:

• best-of-breed dev tools, including Interface Builder

• Steve Jobs.

No contest, I'm afraid.

Even if personally I preferred BeOS.