From Brett McCormick Sent Thu, May 28th 1998, 23:30
From Brett McCormick Sent Thu, May 28th 1998, 23:30
On Thu, 28 May 1998, at 15:50:59, Rodney Perkins wrote: > Major tangent alert! > > No, BeOS is not a Mac OS. Jean-Louis Gasse, a former Apple exec, founded the > company a few years ago. BeOS was originally designed to run on the BeBox, a > multi-processor Power PC based machine. They eventually stopped > manufacturing the BeBox and built a version that would run on Power Macs. > They had a bundling deal w/Power Computing so everyone who bought a clone > could try it out. After Power died, Be built an Intel version. Its > multi-threaded and designed to run with multiple processors. I saw the first > BeOS for Mac demos at Macworld San Francisco in 1996. For a few minutes, > there seemed to be a positive computing future awaiting us all. Now... Be is in the process of porting it to intel -- as far as I know, it isn't a production (commercial) release yet. But when it happen, then..