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Haiku is a clone not based on the original BeOS codebase. So while it may run the same apps and look similar, does it have the internal design and optimizations

by lbenes 10y ago

Haiku is a clone not based on the original BeOS codebase. So while it may run the same apps and look similar, does it have the internal design and optimizations that made the original so capable for its time? Could Haiku running on equivalent hardware run that demo as well as BeOS?

soapdog 10y ago
It is even better. It has ABI compatibility with BeOS, it can run x86 BeOS apps (not PPC apps though)
PeCaN 10y ago
Haiku is pretty damn fast. Its kernel (NewOS) was written by one of the BeOS developers and the whole system's architecture is generally pretty similar to BeOS.