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BeOS Max Edition v3.0 Released
JigSaw writes "After Be went down, 2-3 "distros" of BeOS 5 PE (the free version of BeOS) were created and continued making releases by literally tweaking the internals, patching the kernel etc. in order to bring BeOS up to speed with new hardware. Additionally, these distros include lots of third party software. BeOS Max Edition is the most popular of the bunch, and version v3.0 came out today. The BFS ISO installs in its own BFS partition, however it requires a bit of attention in the way you have to burn it."
Nobody.
Not even me.
During our summer vacation this year, my wife and I amused ourselves by taking leisurely drives in Ohio and photographing every diamond-shaped highway sign that we saw along the roadsides. (Well, not every sign; only the distinct ones.) For provenance, I also stood at the base of each sign and measured its GPS coordinates.
This turned out to be even more fun than a scavenger hunt, so we filled in some gaps when we returned to California, thereby proving my theorum of not buying this book as it was not formatted with METAFONT, which can be found in LaTeX format on my website.
Sincerely,
Donald E. Knuth, Esq.
Donald E. Knuth, Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University
Just Be!!!!!
"The universe is my dwelling place and my house is my only clothes! Why are you entering into my pants?" - Liu Ling
I have this friend. Let's call him "Rob M."
Well Rob M. and I are regular workout partners. Last Monday, Rob M. and I went to the gym and proceeded to go through our normal workout. However, as we were heading to the showers, Taco, I mean Rob M., snapped me with a towel. Startled, I fell backwards and -- in a one in a million shot -- impaled myself on Rob M's pole. I quickly attempted to get up, but I slipped on some of the baby oil Taco and I wipe ourselves down with (we are really more into bodybuilding than working out). Sure enough, I fell back down and impaled myself onto Rob M's pole again.
Now, my question for slashdot is: does this make either of us gay? Please, pray tell, I hope not. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.
Has anybody ever gotten CDRTools to work for Win2k or WinXP? I remember trying it out a few weeks ago and getting an instant bluescreen when I started it up. I was really hoping for a CD burner without all of the cruft found in the commercial packages (Nero is nice, but burns coasters on my machine, and Roxio suxio. Cdrtools and gcombust work perfectly under FreeBSD however)
I read the internet for the articles.
Perhaps if they only tweaked the kernel figuratively they could have stayed in business.
Does BeOS run on Windows ME? It sounds like a fairly interesting program.
Good Lord! There should seriously be a disclaimer attatched to the link to BeOS Max Edition website.
What advantages does Be have over Linux or BSD, other than backwards compatability? It is like windows maintaining support for 16 bit executables, and keeping the same pe ".exe" format, with the real code in a place it was never meant to be.
BeOS used to be so much fun, but two things really held it back when I used it. One, NetPositive was the best browser. That sucked. It was like Netscape 3.0 compatible. I know that's not really valid anymore. There is a Mozilla port now. The second thing, which is probably still an issue, is the fact that BeOS wasn't totally POSIXified. All kinds of hacky stuff had to be done to get stuff to port. Compare this with OS X, which for all intents and purposes, is FreeBSD. Stuff compiles so good on there. I think the next time I will give BeOS a second try is when one of the free BeOS projects starts to come along. I kind of think of BeOS as OS X for i386.
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Hows the Clone open-source BEOS going?
We havent heard much about it..
You're a fucking tool.
Wow, Oprah is ugly!
What is slashdot?
There's a typo in the MaxV3.cue file.
On the line where it refers to the iso image, it reads:
FILE "BeOS5PEMaxEditionV3b3.iso" BINARY
It should say:
FILE "BeOS5PEMaxEdiionV3.iso" BINARY
It's easy to change this in an editor, and so you don't have to wait for the re-release and download it all over again.
Wait isn't BeOS a SCO code derivative? isn't all the OS theory a SCO IP derivative?
BAIN http://www.devslashzero.com
I understand that BeOS is well done and some say that it advances the state-of-the-art is OS design and usability and its great that it has been open sourced to allow code and apps to the public. That said, why would anyone want to start using an effectively end of life OS, is there that much that can be done with the OS? I see all these people putting effort into reviving BeOS or AmigaOS or C64 OS's with TCP/IP and ethernet is this at all useful. If the best features of BeOS live on in Linux I do see that as a benifit but what gain is there in spending the time and effort in reviving a dead horse?
Oh, I must have missed the big Amiga product line announcements. I'll have to ask my systems guy when we'll be able to play around with the Amiga file and database server and web server beta boxes, I'm sure this is going to just be a revolution in our shop. But I wonder if BeOS can be ported to the Amiga boxes, man our server cage will be the envy of all the visitors to the farm...
With this release as well as the several OpenBeOS (openbeos.org) Milestones reached recently and Zeta (yellowtab.com) coming out soon, BeOS is probably not as deas as some trolls claim.
i love BeOS like madonna loves dick, (i triple boot BeOS, FreeBSD, and Windows 2k). But I question why have version 3 of BeOS max edition. The BeOS KErnel (and libraries) are now 3-4 years old. Adding a handful of new drivers doesn't fix the bugs and kernel limits. I'm more interested in OpenBeOS, which offers more potential for the future.
What? You can only burn it in the night of February 29/March 1 when it's a full moon, the CD is plated with mithril, the burner in sanctified with the blood of a virgin and Duke Nukem Forever is released? When you burn it, might it cause a rip in time or a quantum instability?
Man, BeOS is some scary stuff. I can imagine reading about it in the newspaper already... "Kid installs BeOS, blows up universe. God sues for damages."
Hate me!
The most popular? Bullshit! Developer Edition has been around for MUCH longer and just made a nice new release some time ago. Plus there's been a few "illegal" distros which included such things as unreleased beta software and patches. Max is in no way the "most popular" one. In fact, it's often seen as Yet Another Crappy PE Ripoff. I've tried it and Developer Edition is better.
Somebody on osnews reported he was having problems installing BeOS 3.0 on his computer. Read the story on OsNews
I'm particularly fond of the file system in BeOS. When I was in school we had a sort of databased file system. Granted, this was back in the days of punch cards. It wasn't a database so much as a filing cabinet, but you could still find the card you wanted in the system!
AS LONG AS YOU NUMBERED THEM! HAHA! Old Thompson, he used to say you don't need to number your cards, just keep them in order. We all though he was crazy, but he never seemed to have problems inputting his programs. The one time he DID have problems though, haha, was when we conspired to trip him. YEP! Down he went, his cards were everywhere!
Later on after he failed to graduate, we didn't hear much from him. I guess it was hard to keep in touch what with his stay in the hospital. It was probably mean of us to trip him while he was carrying his final project.
He used to wear corduroys, always with that ZIP! ZIP! ZIP! sound as he walked briskly about the lab. These days they are as normal as the classic belt/suspender combination, but back then, he was a bit of a rebel. Few people were bold enough to wear pants like that. We just didn't have the fashion sense back then. Thompson sure did!
SHOWMESHOWYOUKIKOMAN!!
i'm curious as to when operating systems like this will go mainstream. i woved to stop using windows as soon as microsoft interferes with my media usage. many will follow when their current operating systems go from buggy to buggy and restrictive. i didnt really expect to see another release of BeOS. i'm interested in seeing how useful it would perform as a business, internet and gaming OS.
What's so tricky about offering a bootable ISO?
Why should you have to jump through hoops to burn anything for the PC these days?
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
A while back I know of a company that wanted to have their game under BeOS, but had to scrap the plans because they had to have H/W accel 3D under OpenGL and it could only do S/W. Has this been changed?
Last time I was in my kick to use as many different OSes as possible, I found the hardware support for BeOS terribly lacking. Does it support modern graphics cards now? What hardware *won't* work with BeOS?
Is BeOS still stuck in the gcc 2.95 world due to c++ libraries?
At one time, I cared. BeOS could have beaten OSX to the punch. It could have been a kick-a$$ multimedia box.
Now, though, aside from the coolness factor of it being yet another OS that runs on Intel hardware, what exactly does BeOS have that makes it a desirable platform for users? Or put more succintly, Is there anything in BeOS that is not available in Linux?
welcome our new Linux running Beowolf clusted BeOS overlords to Soviet Russia.
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To Be or not to Be?
Well I know that's gunna be my question anyway. I am going to have to try this out and see.
It's about time I can Be again ---I hope I still like it!
See the Pictures of the Flood of '08
The Lion's Eye Bank will thank you.
BeOS is spectacular for your old boxes laying around if you want to try something new. It books on my AMD/300 with 64 MB of RAM in under 15 seconds.
YellowTAB is creating the next incarnation of BeOS code named Zeta, which essentially R6. It should upgrade driver support for the newest hardware releases. Unfortunately a free edition looks doubtful.
Is there any way I can install this WITHOUT formatting my whole hard drive first? (I only have 1 partition, that's the way it came)
When you are feeling down and the worms are spreading round, FUCK the skull of Microsoft! FUCK the skull of Microsoft!
;P
When you have patches galore and your eyes are all sore, FUCK the skull of Microsoft! FUCK the skull of Microsoft!
They say security's their focus, but their bug list's a swarm of locusts! FUCK the skull of Microsoft! FUCK the skull of Microsoft!
Bill Gates can't write a program for 640K o RAM! FUCK the skull of Microsoft! FUCK the skull of Microsoft!!
Although there's trusted computing and Palladium in our future, MS is such a target that even those will need some sutures!
How can you trust something you can't see? (the code) Even Christians have a hard time convincing me!
So no matter what they say, we all know MS is sooo teh ghey! FUCK the skull of Microsoft! FUCK the skull of Microsoft!
Yep. It's a troll. Could someone set it music please?
Un-news
I purchased BeOS back in the day and still have the boxed set. I am interested in installing it on PPC. I have some great Power Macs that it would be super on. Will this install on them?
A Good Intro to NetBS
The trouble with the BeOS was always hardware support. It was a thing of beauty (fast and pretty) when you got everything going, and it could do really cool stuff. Without the kind of heavy duty developer support that other operating systems have it couldn't run on all the latest and greatest hardware though.
That didn't stop me from using it in a dual boot system until after the company went out of business though. Damn shame.
Quoth he
"It's all academic anyway..."
er, don't click me
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
It looks to me like a guy with a headache or a cartoon 'swirl of confusion' above his head.
It makes me think that using Be would be a frustrating experience.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
Slashdot didn't pick up the story when it happened a couple of weeks ago, but Be, Inc. has settled its antitrust suit against Microsoft for $23 million. Microsoft, as usual, admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement.
Readers may recall that Be brought their suit against the Microsoft back in February 2002. At the time this suit was brought, it was becoming obvious that the US government's antitrust suit against Microsoft was not going to result in any significant punishment for the convicted monopolist, and in fact time has borne this out -- Microsoft is arguably more powerful today than ever before.
Some observers felt Be's claims that Microsoft's vendor contracts excluded competitors from the market was a stronger case than the browser bundling aspect that the US department of justice pursued, but in the end it seems that Be no longer had the resources to complete the trial.
With the Be lawsuit abandoned, the best hopes for a remedy to the Microsoft monopoly now seem to be in the European courts, or with a possible regime change in the USA in 2005.
Microsoft may have gotten away with murder, but at least we've got people nursing the corpse along, as stories like the current one illustrate. *sigh*
DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL
for a group that works with one of the nicest looking operating systems ever, they've really produced a horrible website. my "nice" guess is that they're either colorblind, or a group of teenagers who still lament the loss of the tag (or both).
From the BeOS Max website:
:). I've never seen a counter move so fast!
... I better stop reloading!
...
This page has been accessed 35611 times since July 26th, 2003
90% in the last hour probably
Wait
Sorry BeOS Max guys
I'll get my coat.
Could the BeosMax website be any harder on the eyes?
Remember when BeOS was for Macs, whose users tend to be artistic? Guess that's not the case now that it's an Intel OS, eh?
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SERENITY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BEEEEoooooooSSSS, back again! I am going to blow the dust off my old 400 and install! I will provide an installation update in three weeks when I successfully configure my hardware!!
Since I saw AbiWord already in the 3rd screenshot, I figured there might be some interest left for an AbiWord 2.x port for BeOS as well. If anyone is interested in such a port, he/she should stand up now and contact the AbiWord Developers Mailing List. If we find no active BeOS developers within the next 2 weeks, we'll drop the currently unmaintained and outdated BeOS port from our tree.
Whats with the PORN on that site.....i am gonna have a hard time getting that image out of my mind!!
There is no patch for stupidity
Visit my blog
They did pick up the story :P
That BeOS Max page has the goatse image on it! Don't go there!
Face it friends, BeOS is dying
Whoa, how did I miss that? THANK YOU.
DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL
I know this article will generate a ton of "BeOS is dead, who cares" and "Who the hell uses BeOS anymore?" or "What is BeOS?" style posts, so as an avid user of BeOS I will attempt to explain some things:
(1) You'd be surprised how much hardware is supported by BeOS, Athlon XP CPUS, P4s, firewire cards, SCSIs, Magneto Optical, scanners, etc. If it's not natively seen, www.bebits.com (as well as bedrivers.com) is the place to go.
(2) BeOS is a refreshing change of pace from the "Big Brother" of Windows, the "Here's a million bits, put them together yourself" of Linux or the "Our way, the only way" of Apple. BeOS relies on the "less is more" viewpoint. Software packages range in the hundereds of k, as opposed to the hundereds of megs in size, yet still do what they need to do.
(3) I have yet to see a GUI is clean, useful and *consistant* as BeOS.
(4) It just works.
(5) The user base is friendly, enthusiastic and you won't get any of the typical *nix attitudes of "lamer" or "rtfm" in the BeOS user forums.
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
The website has been owned.. check your sigs and sums before running stuff. Unless, of course a big gaping ass picture is actually part of BeOS now.. Please ignore this if that's the case.
OMG!
http://www.beosmax.org/main.php
I love BeOS, as would most developers. Great platform, sorry to see that it's been so marginalized.
BUT, why would anyone want to deface the page?
It's really gross too.
Some *ssh*les need to get real lives.
rr
and version v3.0 came out today.
there's this guy on the main page that's called "version v3.0" for some perverted reason, guess he's one of the developers or something 'coming out'..
Someone has posted some stomach churning pictures right on the main page of beos max...
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2B OR NOT 2B == FF
I'm a chainsmokin' alcoholic sociopath, so-ci-o-path
Yeah, BeOS is definitely a joke.
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
OMG! Please put a DISCLAIMER on this site NOW!!!
Brought to you by, Intel! Best run on Pentium EXXXTREME.
I was looking at that beos website and there is content on the main page which is extremely work inappropriate. I would definitely NOT suggest going to this website from work for ANYBODY.
Why bother? Mac OS X is, by far, the gold standard operating system and it does everything BeOS ever did, only with a better GUI, true Unix underpinnings and all on the fastest hardware money can buy! Why would you want to run a niche OS like BeOS that doesn't support modern applications and hardware? For christ sakes, I'd rather run Windows! (Although I do concede that BeOS kicks Linux's ass all over the place).
My wife has an old Win98 Internet box at home that suicided just last night (first time ever for that box, oh miracle of miracles). Windows was *completely* smoked. Fried. I've got the steaming hard drive with me right now, because I was hoping to find the old BeOSFree around on the net tonight and put that on for her. This is one better!
:-(
Now I must publicly proclaim that there is a God, he loves me, and furthermore, doesn't want me to run Windows - as we all suspected! Praise the Lord! It's a sign!
Now if only I'd listened to Him when he told me to sell Nortel in early 2000...
I was a BeOS fanatic from around 1997 until Be went under. I first picked it up because I wanted to take up programming again (my CS courses in college were in something called Algol-W - it was right before the school switched to using a cool new language called Pascal, if that tells you anything about my age). I taught myself C++ via Be's tutorials and various free resources on the web. I tried to get my wife to use BeOS, but she wouldn't because the version of Minesweeper that came with it sucked, so I wrote a really cool Minesweeper game from scratch, complete with 32-bit graphics, continuously resizable board (stretch the window and the entire game scales up proportionately), progress bars for squares and mines - it really wasn't that hard to do with the BeOS API.
When Be finally went belly-up, I switched to Debian as my primary OS and KDevelop/Qt for my hobbyist coding, and was pleasantly surprised to find it quite BeOS-like. I still occasionally boot into BeOS to play Civilization: Call To Power for the sake of nostalgia.
Actually, I remember farther back, when Be made its own hardware, the BeBox (which Be, Inc. president Jean Louis Gassee called the "Amiga for the 90's"). It was a dual processor PowerPC machine which was designed to accept PCI and ISA cards originally made for the x86 PC world. This was back when Be's original slogan was "One processor per person is not enough!"
I started working for Metrowerks right around the time when Be was in the beta release cycle for the x86 version of BeOS. My job was supposed to be porting the BeOS debugger to the x86 architecture, a problem compounded by the fact that the BeOS debugger was actually a port of the Macintosh PowerPC debugger. A lot of Mac toolbox calls were being emulated (inefficiently) by BeOS calls. What we really needed to do was a complete rewrite, but nobody wanted to spend the time or money on that.
Metrowerks stabbed Be in the back and killed all BeOS development, and I was given a choice of leaving Metrowerks or switching to another division. I chose to leave. Be eventually did make the full transition to x86, and PowerPC support became a less compelling concern.
It's interesting to note that BeOS support for Macintosh hardware was begun as a project to work around an asinine restriction placed on Be, Inc., by the folks running Macworld Expo. Apparently, the expo organizers decided that unless BeOS ran on Macintosh hardware, Be wouldn't be allowed to show its product off at Macworld; up to that point, BeOS ran only on the BeBox. An internal team got the OS ported, and soon after, Be's management realized that there was no reason for Be, Inc. to be a hardware vendor. The x86 port pretty much clinched it. I think JLG thought that he'd make Be into a software-only company like NeXT, and indeed, BeOS was one of the OSes being considered by Apple to replace Copland; with Apple's decision to buy NeXT instead, Be's only real avenue of survival was cut off.
The moral of the story is that there's little or no room left in the x86 world for alternative operating systems that you must pay for. Linux survives precisely because it costs nothing, so Microsoft has no leverage against Linux in that arena. I still like BeOS, the same way I liked the Amiga's OS, but I knew the handwriting was on the wall when the efforts to get BeOS pre-bundled on x86 hardware stalled. I noticed that Be was trying to get BeOS ported to MIPS hardware, apparently in a bid to compete against Windows CE (and this seems to be why Palm bought Be's intellectual property), but nothing ever came of that either.
Definitely a candidate for "Websites that Suck"
It's all Hood
What's the deal with BeOS, is it an OS, or is it just trying to Be and OS, ahaha.
-Damn it's been a long day.
Don't insult the FreeBSD kernel like that ; comparing OS X to FreeBSD and saying they are the same is absurd. I also take umbrage at the remark even if it is only in reference to the userland. FreeBSD's 4.8+ and 5.X+ userlands are one thousand times more useful that the piece of shit OS X.
... are you a geek or something?
Ack...it's the text version of goatse.cx.
two words: ass fountain..
WTF? mebbe it no likey me privoxy..
Wow I can now jump up and down with gleed. now that the new Free version Be OS is now out
A BeOS live CD ala Knoppix seems like it would be a useful and usable implementation of the OS. Any plans for or thoughts on this?
The BeOS POSIX implementation is very complete. Non-network utilities are usually easy to port. But the big issue is that sockets are not descriptors. That's right. You can't pass a socket descriptor to read() or write(). You need to use send() or recv().
That's the single biggest issue in porting POSIX applications to BeOS and also the hardest to fix.
If I had a sig, I would put it here.
I am amazed that this is the first goatse.cx troll I have seen that actually made it to the front page.
Timothy, did you even click the link before deciding that it was worthy for the rest of us?
It can be either BFS or ISO9660, but not both. Which one is it?
Exactly how long ago did this release come out? AFter booting off the cd, my usb keyboard and mouse won't work. The drivers library can't be that bad...
"Come on, let's go drink till we can't feel feelings anymore."
Got this email today...
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:47:46 -0700
From: Dan Johnston
To: danj@beincorporated.com
Subject: Be.com Domain
You are receiving this e-mail because at some point in the past year you
have expressed some credible interest in purchasing the be.com domain name.
At that time we indicated that we were seeking an amount within the
appraised range of U.S. $230,000.00 and U.S. $290,000.00. Because the
appraisal was performed at a peak period of the market and economy, it is
clear that Board should now be willing to consider offers below that range.
The competitive offers that have been made to date have fallen within the
U.S. $50,000.00 to U.S. $100,000.00 range. I am trying to determine if you
are still interested in purchasing the domain name and, if so, requesting
that you make a renewed bid at this time. I will take the highest bid back
to the Board of Directors for approval with the intent of finally accepting
that highest bid and completing the sale without taking the domain to a
public auction.
Let me know if you would like to make an offer under these new conditions.
BeOS's forte is audio mixing, as such it is the choice OS of the Edirol/Roland UA100, the iZ Tech - RADAR 24 & the SX-1 Integrated Audio Production Station.
There maybe Mac drivers for the Edirol/Roland UA100 but I doubt the Radar 24 & the SX-1 are Mac compatible, seeing these intigrated autio editors were built from the ground up to use BeOS as their OS. Getting Mac OSX to work on either of them would be nearly as hard as porting some hospital machine that uses QNX to MacOSX
How's it going, Bery? (if you remember me)....I am shocked...SHOCKED to stumble into you in a BeOS thread ;)
- mmap
- job control (^Z doesn't work, which makes the UNIX shell about as useful as DOS)
- pthreads
- working select or poll
- POSIX priority control
There are also countless other little things that irked me coming from a UNIX background and trying to use BeOS' shell. Their POSIX layer basically implements the bare minimum to get bash and the GNU sh-utils running, and very little else. Calling it "very complete" is like calling a Pinto "very fast".Loneliness is a power that we possess to give or take away forever
I actually paid for BeOS 5. I'm not terribly interested in the new stuff going on, I've more or less given up on BeOS. Still, it irks me a little that I can't even check it out, since all these new developments seem to be released as modifications to the freeloader version of BeOS, rather than the "pro ediition" that genuine Be enthusiasts paid for.
Is there a way around this?
Now before I get modded down, I be to remind whoever might read this that what I am saying is FACT. - bogaboga
unlike many of my fellow slashdotters, i actually downloaded it and installed it on my laptop. and i have a few points. 1. just change the name of the beosiso in the cue file and then burn the cue, it isnt hard. 2. the beosmax website looks alot different in netpositive (the beos browser) and 3. doom is installed as one of the games.
andrew
Anyone know what the absolutely latest and greatest BeOS version for us humble BeBox owners is?
I've gotta get my machine back up and running (it was raped for ram and video years ago...) but when I do, I want to run the best OS I can on it. Any suggestions?
(Yes, I know about the BeBox-linux project, but are there other interesting things to do with BeBoxen?)
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
beos is quite a fun little OS if you ask me.. i'm one of those kind of people that enjoy trying out as many different possibilities for computing as possible.. which includes experimenting with all sorts of OS's.
i think beos is great for everyday, regular computing.. AIM, E-mail, cd-burning, wordprocessing, IRC, whatever it may be, there's usually a piece of software written for the task you are looking to accomplish.. of course there arent very many "advanced" apps for all you crazy users out there, but i mean think about what the majority of internet users do when they connect? the basics...
and what better for those types of people, than a free OS thats easy as hell to install, and is pretty stable?? i'm glad they are still releasing new versions of the max edition.. when
i like a little change in my computing diet.. i enjoy dual booting linux and BeOS cuz it just gives me the opportunity to have a more dynamic computing experience.. something different.. for basic users..
- Hi I'm Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux, Lih-nix..
Since there was only one user, there was not a lot of file-level security (they're always all your files). Although having a proprietary kernel was listed as one of BeOS's features, I always considered it to be a detriment. BeFS was cool, and the API being C++-oriented was cool, and ya, low latency was cool. But if the cost was the almost-but-not-quite-POSIX OS, then that's not cool.
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