> "BeOS R5, had a free version called "BeOS Personal Edition," which ran as an app inside Windows or Linux" Not quite. While the file system resided on the Win

> "BeOS R5, had a free version called "BeOS Personal Edition," which ran as an app inside Windows or Linux" Not quite. While the file system resided on the Windows or Linux partition as a drive image, to run BeOS you rebooted the computer into BeOS natively; the boot loader booted that drive image from the other OS's file system. In fact, once in the BeOS environment, you could use the BeOS disk manager and installer to create a BeOS native partition on free space on the main drive or a second drive, and install the OS natively to the PC. Effectively, you could run the full OS on its own for free. That's exactly what I did for the first few months I used BeOS back in 2000; I was so taken with the OS I bought the full version and tracked down a hard copy of the BeOS Bible and Be Advanced Topics, both of which are still on my bookshelf. > "I don't recall any licensing requirements pinned to the amount of RAM you had." There were no licensing restrictions that I was aware of, however it wouldn't run on machines with more than 768MB without a patch.