Ten Years of BeOS

Tracker writes "BeOS was released to developers officially for the first time ten years ago. OSNews has a charming write-up about the BeOS, some interesting historical events since 1994, and a few anecdotes as well. Today, BeOS still lives on with projects like the freeware BeOS Max (built upon BeOS 5 PE), the open source re-implementation from scratch OpenBeOS and YellowTAB's commercial Zeta OS (based on unreleased and updated code of what would have been 'BeOS 6' if Be wasn't purchased by Palm in 2001)."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Netcraft confirms BeOS is dieing

Obligatory BeOS Quotes

[Gunfighter]

A few years back, one of the members of my Quake clan was a programmer who preferred BeOS as his platform of choice for development and other everyday tasks. He eventually went to work for Be and we didn't hear from him much after that. Nevertheless, we always gave him hell about his BeOS preference. Here are a few choice quotes from our IRC logs:

This first one is particularly applicable as it pertains to the "uncorruptable" BeOS filesystem.

but you have more problems with win95 than i have ever imagined anyone having
nah...you should see some of the people on my dorm floor...
one guy had to fdisk like 5 times last semester
hehe
You CAN'T corrupt the BeOS file system
Even by kicking out the power cord
you can't play Q2 on it either :P

potty stop - brb
overkill.. yellow card
what, you'd rather say i was going to "the little programmer's room" or something??
I got take a BeOS

"BeOS combines the best features of all the major operating systems: the ease-of-use of the Macintosh, the power and flexibility of Linux, and Minesweeper from Windows."

Re:Obligatory BeOS Quotes

[Gunfighter]

Perhaps these will be a little easier to read (forgot to change the < to &lt)

<dEad{Ni}> but you have more problems with win95 than i have ever imagined anyone having
<Tolen{Ni}> nah...you should see some of the people on my dorm floor...
<Tolen{Ni}> one guy had to fdisk like 5 times last semester
<Magaera{Ni}> hehe
<Magaera{Ni}> You CAN'T corrupt the BeOS file system
<Magaera{Ni}> Even by kicking out the power cord
<Gunfighter{Ni}> you can't play Q2 on it either :P

<Magaera{Ni}> potty stop - brb
<Gunfighter{Ni}> overkill.. yellow card
<Magaera{Ni}> what, you'd rather say i was going to "the little programmer's room" or something??
<Deathwish{Ni}> I got take a BeOS

<Magaera{Ni}> "BeOS combines the best features of all the major operating systems: the ease-of-use of the Macintosh, the power and flexibility of Linux, and Minesweeper from Windows."

big

[Anonymous Coward]

big surprise, Eugenia Loli-Queru has a "charming" write up about beos

Re:10 years?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, I wasn't aware that Linux had an exemption to that MSFT demand.

LOL!

[torpor]

"BeOS combines the best features of all the major operating systems: the ease-of-use of the Macintosh, the power and flexibility of Linux, and Minesweeper from Windows."

Karma be damned, that is funny.

I honestly can't think of an "oh, and maybe ..." response. The above statement is complete.

Re:LOL!

[identity0]

No, it isn't.

"...and the marketing team from OS/2, and the rabid fans from Amiga."

There. Now's its complete. :P

(Yes, I have BeOS 4.5)

Re:Still got my BeBox.

[razmaspaz]

I finally threw out my irix box from SG. It was so cute sitting in the corner being all purple...what is wrong with me...its a friggin computer...I needed to move on.

So do you!

Proofreading!

[Tarantolato]

OSNews has a charming write-up about the BeOS

You misspelled "morbid obsession with".

Re:cough *bs* cough

[Lord Kano]

Oddly enough, it's because of Jobs that I haven't bought any new Apple hardware in over 7 years.

LK

Re:Too bad

[pragma_x]

Stephenson sure has a way with words:

When Ronald Reagan was a radio announcer, he used to call baseball games by reading the terse descriptions that trickled in over the telegraph wire and were printed out on a paper tape. [...] This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

Not sure about Mozilla, but that certainly explains IE's memory problems.

Re:BeOS was hard to get over

[stew77]

Carbon is on par with the BeOS APIs

Where'd you get a version of Carbon that's object oriented and threadsafe?

Irony

[fsterman]

Microsoft killed Be, but it seems that /. just killed Zeta

Re:BeOS was hard to get over

[Senjutsu]

I actually bought BeOS, I also bought OS/2 - what shall I buy next, it will fail.

Windows? Please?