I was heavily in to BeOS. I read Scott's BeOS Bible cover to cover. I had most of the other books (The BeOS API gude, Advanced topics, Programming the BeOS, Pra

I was heavily in to BeOS. I read Scott's BeOS Bible cover to cover. I had most of the other books (The BeOS API gude, Advanced topics, Programming the BeOS, Practical Filesystem Design) and also had a BeBox (a 66MHz model) and a PowerMac 9500/180MP (Dual processor) to run the OS on. I had a lot of fun. I advocated PowerPC back when the trend was towards Intel and I still mess about with the OS occasionaly ( https://github.com/memsom/mwobdec https://github.com/memsom/mwobdec .) I had a BeIA device and had a few versions of BeIA running on various other devices. It was pretty much just BeOS without the Tracker desktop and with a slightly different file system. Take a look at Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeIA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeIA - I wrote a lot of the BeIA info back in the day on there, especially the stuff about the CFS and exe compression.) The DT-300 Webpad I had was nothing really like an iPad (it was running a Geode from NationalSemi and booted from a compact flash card.) But you can see where the tech was heading.