History and Perspective on BeOS

prepp writes "Avid BeOS user Robert Renling posts his first article about the Be Operating System." An interesting little article, with the amusing conclusion that BeOS isn't dead after all! Ah Zealots. Aren't we fun?

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Not dead?

[pla]

Yeah... Suuuuuuuure. Next you'll tell us that legendary beast called the "Mac" still lives. ;-)

And, of course, we can't ignore that ultra hard core group of Amiga users. Any day now, one of the many compnies that have shuffled *that* hot potato around will release the new-and-improved Amiga, with something better than the 68060. Uh-huh. Sure. And my Atari 800 runs Windows XP.

I love articles like this one. No one actually used BeOS when it *did* really exist, thus its demise. Why should it matter that some poor deluded bastards still have a dusty, unused partition running it? I still have a DEC Rainbow in my basement, that I occasionally turn on and run NetHack with. That doesn't somehow make Digital any more "real".

Lots of innovation

[scott1853]

For those that don't want to read the article, I don't blame you because it's poorly written. But here's the summary of it.

Be's most exciting innovations that other systems are just starting to add support for (according to the article):

Multi-threading

Stability

MIME Types

Being able to open JPEG files

Biggest downside:

Doesn't support USB.

I don't know what he was using for a comparison but I would assume something console based from MS, circa 1988.

Are you on crack?

[Inoshiro]

Net+ was the worst browser! It was like Opera v2, or the brower from IBM that came with OS/2. The entire point of it was to go get a better browser. The only problem was that there never was a good browser, since there was no might like IBM's to get Netscape to port over to the OS (back before Mozilla had enough strength to stand on its own).

No CSS, HTML 3.2 barely, no JS.. While I don't like JS (I leave most of it off it Mozilla), a lot of sites (ab)use it to perform basic things that should be done at a lower layer, like browser redirects and URL construction. Net+ was impossible to use on anything other that Be's HTML documentation.