Apple's long processor journey
BeOS seemed really nice at the time. I'm not sure if it would have worked out better in the long run, but it sounded great.<p>I always had the sense that consumer focused computers should be engineered with real-time capabilities, and instead, they ended up being based on time-sharing systems which seems like it hampers UI and media processing. For decades, and especially presently, I get so frustrated with lags and hiccups no matter how fast the CPU and storage are.