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1998-05-28 15:50Rodney PerkinsMajor tangent alert! No, BeOS is not a Mac OS. Jean-Louis Gasse, a former Apple exec, foun

From:: Rodney Perkins <rdperkins@earthlink.net>
To:: Blag Jesus Sex Machine <blag@gawth.com>, GamePrg. <buh@clark.net>
Cc:: <bpm0@interport.net>, <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Thu, 28 May 1998 15:50:59 +0000
Subject:: BeOS (was Re: (idm) MP3 from a turntable...)

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... ----------

quoted 6 lines From: Blag Jesus Sex Machine <blag@gawth.com>

>From: Blag Jesus Sex Machine <blag@gawth.com> >To: "GamePrg." <buh@clark.net> >Cc: bpm0@interport.net, idm@hyperreal.org >Subject: Re: (idm) MP3 from a turntable... >Date: Thu, May 28, 1998, 8:48 PM >

quoted 12 lines first off, what the hell is a BeOS computer? :D I've never heard of it, and

>> first off, what the hell is a BeOS computer? :D I've never heard of it, and >> I'm a CS major.. but I'm just curious about that.. > >BeOS is a mac OS. > >it looks pretty bitchin, as far as multimedia mac OSes go. > >.Bil. > >IAMaCOPIER > >

1998-05-28 22:30Brett McCormickOn Thu, 28 May 1998, at 15:50:59, Rodney Perkins wrote: > Major tangent alert! > > No, BeO

From:: Brett McCormick <brett@techno.chicken.org>
To:: Rodney Perkins <rdperkins@earthlink.net>
Cc:: Blag Jesus Sex Machine <blag@gawth.com>, GamePrg. <buh@clark.net>, <bpm0@interport.net>, <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Thu, 28 May 1998 15:30:38 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:: Re: BeOS (was Re: (idm) MP3 from a turntable...)
Reply to:: BeOS (was Re: (idm) MP3 from a turntable...)

On Thu, 28 May 1998, at 15:50:59, Rodney Perkins wrote:

quoted 11 lines Major tangent alert!

> 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..

1998-05-29 11:079-5SuperSpyOn Thu, 28 May 1998, Brett McCormick wrote: > Be is in the process of porting it to intel

From:: 9-5SuperSpy <dbremmer@kuci.org>
Cc:: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Fri, 29 May 1998 04:07:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:: Re: BeOS (was Re: (idm) MP3 from a turntable...)
Reply to:: Re: BeOS (was Re: (idm) MP3 from a turntable...)

On Thu, 28 May 1998, Brett McCormick wrote:

quoted 3 lines Be is in the process of porting it to intel -- as far as I know, it

> 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..

They never even made it to an official commercial release for Power Macintosh or the Be Box, everything was either beta or developer releases. IT looked like a cool platform, and Netscape even considered making it a platform for thier HTTP server. You can download it for the mac at www.be.com. There's also a MacOs extention called "BeView" that makes your mac desktop look like the BeOS. -Daniel 9-5SuperSpy@kuci.org ============================================================================== Listen to "Space Disco for Fish Tacos", KUCI 88.9fm Wednesdays 8-10pm New Space Disco For Fish Tacos web site: http://www.kuci.org/~dbremmer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "We're not talking about music. Fuck music, this is Taco Mesa... Music is just something we do until we get hungry and can go back to Taco Mesa" -Alex Graham ==============================================================================

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