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History and Perspective on BeOS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-not-to-do dept.

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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  1. Lots of innovation by scott1853 · · Score: 4, Troll
    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.