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And Be OS got crushed by MS when it actually had a shot at being a decent OEM alternative. This was due to, you guessed it, more MS anti-competes.

http://www.beatjapan.org/mirror/www.be.com/users/i conworld/icon22.html
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Don't forget about BeOS. AFAIK it'll run on a Pentium with 16 MB of RAM although Firefox probably wouldn't work. On slightly better hardware you can even watch fullscreen XviD video. The best thing is that BeOS's GUI is freakishly fast. On my machine (3 GHz P4) it's at least twice as fast as Linux or Windows, so I'd bet the difference would be even more apparent on older machines.

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The source code for Q3Arena has just been released under GPL. I'm
willilng to be part of the team looking into porting this to
BeOS/Haiku/Zeta (well, I've only got Zeta installed, but
nevertheless), since I've got some experience with OpenGL. Anyone who
*seriously* wants to participate in getting this beast building under
the BeOS family (sorry, no offers to beta test yet), drop me a private
line and I'll see about setting up a freelists mailing list for this
project. We need to give Rudolf something other than Q2 to test his
drivers with, since running the same old timedemo must be driving him
nuts.

I can be reached at:
solaja FUNNY_MONKEY_SIGN gmail FULLSTOP com

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The BeOS had a Find dialog that would let you search for files not only by name, but also by attribute. This a much more powerful feature than the traditional searching directory trees for files matching a name.

BeOS even took it a step further and allowed saved queries and live queries. This means that you could, for example, save a query that finds all files modified in the last 24 hours, and it would be automatically updated as time progressed and files were updated.

All of this could supposedly be implemented on modern filesystems (such as reiser4), but it's not quite there yet.

Then interactive web applications. Nowadays, many services that have traditionally been offered through client software are offered through web interfaces. This has the advantage that everyone with a web browser can use the service, and everyone would automatically be using the current version. There's no need to implement different versions for different platforms, no need to distribute the software, and a lot fewer compatibility issues to worry about.

The disadvantage is that web interfaces are very limited in their interactive abilities. In true client software, you can have things like search forms that display matching results as you enter text in the search box. Or a form could give you a list of cities depending on the state you chose. Or updates to the state can be displayed as soon as they happen, without the user requesting an update. Many of these and similar things are difficult or impossible to accomplish with HTML.

The gap is being filled. JavaScript can be used to make webpages more interactive. Flash allows adding interactive content to webpages. Java and ActiveX allows real applications to integrate with webpages to a limited extent. XUL aims to provide a full widget toolkit (as opposed to HTML's ad-hoc choice of widgets) to web applications. However, all of these fall short in one area or another, and there's a glaring absence of standardization (just look at how much trouble Gmail is having making a limited set of features available in a limited number of browsers).

I suspect Microsoft's XAML and .NET is going to fill this void and provide an easy way to develop truly interactive web applications. However, I hope that, with all its potential, the open source community can produce a good solution before Microsoft releases theirs - I don't like dependence on any large corporation.

Uh huh. That's why most owners of Hitachi FLORA Prius machines never even knew that OS was on their computers, and no bootloader was preinstalled. Hitachi just wanted to do that way. Right.

The DoJ was aware of this and decided, in their infinte wisdom, not to include it in their antitrust action.

Booting BeOS on Hitachi

KFG

No, we can't use that.. This is beware.

For those of you like me, that know nothing about BeOS, here is the FAQ

Davak

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Thanks for the informative reply. I'm not a multimedia person and didn't think that you meant 6 full 720x576x25fps video streams. I think the screen res. was probably 1024x768 and the cube was not full screen so the cube was most likely 640x480 or smaller. I was serious about the rotating video cube on a 1998 pc though. Here, is a mirror of the BeOS tour. Below the second screenshot they mention the video cube. From there discription, as well as your figures, it probably didn't support video on all 6 faces at once.

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Here's a list of compatible BeOS systems including many 604-based machines.

Unfortunately it looks like BeOS on an 8600 is a bit iffy, due to logic board idiosyncracies.

When writing a column about graphics driver development for the Be Developer Newsletter (RIP), I needed to come up with a name for an imaginary graphics card. I took a quick glance through the marketing buzzwords of the day, threw them in a blender, punched 'Frappe', and came up with:

Yoyodyne Monstra VelocElite-LX 128-3D-AGP

:-),
Schwab