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...
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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..
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>BeOS is a mac OS.
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>it looks pretty bitchin, as far as multimedia mac OSes go.
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>.Bil.
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>IAMaCOPIER
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