On Thu, 28 May 1998, at 15:50:59, Rodney Perkins wrote:
quoted 11 lines Major tangent alert!> Major tangent alert!
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> 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..