Borklog: One entry


17 August 2001

It looks like Be is now dead. I've only been truly excited about three operating systems: MacOS back in 1984, NeXTstep, and BeOS. BeOS did so much *right* - pervasie multithreading, a very well done C++ GUI toolkit, attributed journaled filesystem, very simple yet flexible component arhitecture, SMP out of the box, and a ton of very sexy demos, the original BeBox was truly drool-worthy. Alas the company didn't have a clear direction (we're a media creation OS! No! We're for games! No! We're for embedded Internet Appliances!), and never really supported the hardware I wanted to use. By the time I got an Intel box that could run it, the OS had become so marginalized that it didn't make any sense to devote a lot of time working with it, outside of running a few demos.
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