BeOS is pretty neat, Haiku too, and I wish them the best, but never quite had the same appeal to me, primarily because I hadn’t really heard of it until I was in my 20’s. As such I never got to mythologize it in my brain like Amiga.
I do hope Haiku does catch on though; I heard they have a decent browser now, so there’s a shot.
I was a big BeOS user and have my R4 and 5 CD's somewhere. It was impressive to open a bunch of videos or the video cube thing as a demo and watch pulse peg to full CPU while the system and UI remained snappy. Another cool thing was the universal codec where you drop a PNG codec into the codec directory and now all your image programs can open PNGs. I really enjoyed it but the magic died when Palm bought it and I never looked back.
Given the multimedia capabilities available in 1995 for home computers, in a multitasking OS, even if multithreading related crashes were a bit too common.
BeOS is pretty neat, Haiku too, and I wish them the best, but never quite had the same appeal to me, primarily because I hadn’t really heard of it until I was in my 20’s. As such I never got to mythologize it in my brain like Amiga.
I do hope Haiku does catch on though; I heard they have a decent browser now, so there’s a shot.
I was a big BeOS user and have my R4 and 5 CD's somewhere. It was impressive to open a bunch of videos or the video cube thing as a demo and watch pulse peg to full CPU while the system and UI remained snappy. Another cool thing was the universal codec where you drop a PNG codec into the codec directory and now all your image programs can open PNGs. I really enjoyed it but the magic died when Palm bought it and I never looked back.
I have always seen BeOS as a spiritual successor to the Amiga.
Genuine question: in what sense?
Given the multimedia capabilities available in 1995 for home computers, in a multitasking OS, even if multithreading related crashes were a bit too common.
BeOS fans still exist!