4 ms·
Be took this approach, for what it's worth -- they sold two models of BeBox, and all developers were given the slower one. They pointed this out very proudly i
by jimwise 16y ago
Be took this approach, for what it's worth -- they sold two models of BeBox, and all developers were given the slower one.
They pointed this out very proudly in their launch pitch for BeOS, a pitch which focused as much on performance / concurrency advantages of BeOS over the then-lagging MacOS as it did on the novel API features of the OS.
Don't know whether that anecdote counts as for or against the idea, but it's certainly been tried...
- stcredzero 16y agoI'd say for. A fully loaded Be desktop could easily weigh in at under 300MB. That would count as a "lightweight" Linux distro. BeOS was a lean machine.
- gonk 16y agoI still have my BeBox, if only because back in the day I got a hell of a lot of good things done with it (reverse engineering of strange file systems, mostly) and without question I can still kick out some fully functional, performant, code with the thing. Old computers may be slow, but there is a hell of a lot of bloat in our computer worlds these days.
- silentbicycle 16y agoI never developed for it, but I ran the free install years ago on (then) laughably slow hardware, and it was still quite snappy.