Opinions? BeOS

[Dan Wright]

Kurt Huhn wrote:
> 
> On Mar 10, 2005, at 9:26 PM, Joe R. wrote:
> 
>>    I picked up a Cd and manuals for BeOS today. Anybody here use it? What
>> do you think of it?
>>
> 
> Works great on my BeBox.  :)
> 
> BeOS is an oddity in OS circles.  It's very much what you might expect 
> from OpenStep, sort of.  Well, if you mixed OpenStep with a liberal dose 
> of multimedia.  It's very strange, but in a very comforting way.  :)
> 

I like it.  I have a dual PII-233 I run it on and it's FAST on that hardware 
:)  It's sort of unix-y-ish, but not really, and kind of openstep-ish, but not 
really.  Fun to mess with, and it has a really interesting thread/process 
model and programming APIs.  If you're interested in that sort of thing it 
would be cool to play around with :)

-- 

Dan Wright
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