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Off topic question. I used BeOS for years and it was the platform I learned C++ on. I just checked out the Wikipedia page and it was pretty unclear on what ev

by vt240 11y ago

Off topic question. I used BeOS for years and it was the platform I learned C++ on. I just checked out the Wikipedia page and it was pretty unclear on what ever happened. Anyone know where the OS ended up, seems like such a loss.

owyn 11y ago
It ended up as Haiku: https://www.haiku-os.org https://www.haiku-os.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_(operating_system) It's linked from the wikipedia BeOS page but not prominently...
- vt240 11y ago
  Yea, I saw that on there. But it appeared from the page they were doing a total rewrite. Anyway, those were weird days with all those PREP boxes, scattershot OS development from Apple. Booting up into BeOS for the first time and the whole development experience was like a gift from god. Anyway, thanks for the link.
  - niklasni1 11y ago
    Haiku does not contain any code from BeOS, except the filemanager and launcher, which were open souced by Be before they folded. It is a complete rewrite, done by volunteers.
michaelwww 11y ago
I have the open source knock-off Haiku running in VirtualBox, but that's probably not your question. BeOS proper was sold to Access: In September 2005, ACCESS acquired PalmSource, the owner of the Palm OS and BeOS. The company has used these assets and expertise to create the Access Linux Platform, an open-source Linux-based platform for smartphones and other mobile devices [Wikipedia]
dnautics 11y ago
same here. A lot of BeOS lives on in android. Romain Guy was a huge contributor to the kernel (file system, I think) and I notice his name float by in the photo creds for my chromecast. Dianne Hackborn also works for Android, when I first coded in dalvik Java there were definitely concepts that floated in from BeOS inter-process communication.
nickpsecurity 11y ago
I remember my jaw dropping seeing their demo of graphical multitasking on a PC that couldn't do a fraction of that under Windows. Came in part due to architectural choices. Here's some of them for those trying to learn from BeOS: https://users.cs.jmu.edu/abzugcx/public/Student-Produced-Term-Projects/Operating-Systems-2003-FALL/BeOS-by-Nicole-Chung-Brian-Hoffman-Robert-Robinson-AJ-Schuster-2003-Fall.doc https://users.cs.jmu.edu/abzugcx/public/Student-Produced-Ter...

by vt240 11y ago

owyn 11y ago

It ended up as Haiku: https://www.haiku-os.org https://www.haiku-os.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_(operating_system) It's linked from the wikipedia BeOS page but not prominently...

vt240 11y ago
Yea, I saw that on there. But it appeared from the page they were doing a total rewrite. Anyway, those were weird days with all those PREP boxes, scattershot OS development from Apple. Booting up into BeOS for the first time and the whole development experience was like a gift from god. Anyway, thanks for the link.
- niklasni1 11y ago
  Haiku does not contain any code from BeOS, except the filemanager and launcher, which were open souced by Be before they folded. It is a complete rewrite, done by volunteers.

michaelwww 11y ago

I have the open source knock-off Haiku running in VirtualBox, but that's probably not your question. BeOS proper was sold to Access: In September 2005, ACCESS acquired PalmSource, the owner of the Palm OS and BeOS. The company has used these assets and expertise to create the Access Linux Platform, an open-source Linux-based platform for smartphones and other mobile devices [Wikipedia]

dnautics 11y ago

same here. A lot of BeOS lives on in android. Romain Guy was a huge contributor to the kernel (file system, I think) and I notice his name float by in the photo creds for my chromecast. Dianne Hackborn also works for Android, when I first coded in dalvik Java there were definitely concepts that floated in from BeOS inter-process communication.

nickpsecurity 11y ago

I remember my jaw dropping seeing their demo of graphical multitasking on a PC that couldn't do a fraction of that under Windows. Came in part due to architectural choices. Here's some of them for those trying to learn from BeOS: https://users.cs.jmu.edu/abzugcx/public/Student-Produced-Term-Projects/Operating-Systems-2003-FALL/BeOS-by-Nicole-Chung-Brian-Hoffman-Robert-Robinson-AJ-Schuster-2003-Fall.doc https://users.cs.jmu.edu/abzugcx/public/Student-Produced-Ter...