Opinions? BeOS

[Doc Shipley]

Jules Richardson wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 21:26 -0500, Joe R. wrote:
> 
>>   I picked up a Cd and manuals for BeOS today. Anybody here use it? What
>>do you think of it?
> 
> 
> It's pretty slick for the time, although I suppose all the nicer
> features have been copied now within modern OSes. The integration
> between desktop and command-line shell is nicely done.
> 
> I picked up a dual 133MHz Bebox a while back which I took over to
> Bletchley, but I just haven't had time to play around with it much
> since. 
> 
> Far as I'm aware, there are quite a few free apps and utils out there
> for the OS. I'll have a look tomorrow when I'm at the museum and see
> which version of the OS it is that ours runs. I know the standard web
> browser on our one barfs at just about anything and badly needs an
> upgrade (although I think you can put Firefox on there)
> 
> Overall, nice classic OS (running on nice classic hardware in this case
> - even if it doesn't quite fall within the ten year rule :)

   Amen.  Any system with *four* MIDI ports ain't your nephew's PC.  ;)

   I have several commercial multimedia apps written for BeOS PPC.  They 
came with the box, and I haven't done much with them past "ooh, 
Shiney!", but they seem to be pretty tightly desinged.

   As far as I can tell/remember, commercial application support wasn't 
wide, but tended to be toward the high-end, especially in multimedia.


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