Comment by qubex

I have extremely fond memories of using BeOS as a main driver OS back in the late nineties (‘96-‘98/‘99). First I had a BeBox (dual 603e-133MHz) and later a dual PIII-300MHz. The former was definitely my favourite hardware platform (‘exotic’ RISC architecture combined with das blinkenlights) while the latter far outclassed it once I finally sorted out the video-card driver issues). An absolutely splendid experience. To this day I still adore the chiselled looks of NeXTStep and BeOS GUIs from the period, but the added colourful “Nintendo-esque” elements of BeOS graphic design attracted me. Oh and the movable yellow tabs across the windows! I was also getting into amateur astronomy and there was a 3D starchart application that utterly awed me. I never knew that sitting in my bedroom in mid 1998 with a BeBox planning an astrophotography shot while Enigma’s Return To Innocence blaring in the background would become the high water mark memory of my late adolescence.