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BeOS, a modern operating system that supported SMP, preemptive multitasking, and a journaling file system waaaaay before Windows 95 was even released.
by k_sze 8y ago
BeOS, a modern operating system that supported SMP, preemptive multitasking, and a journaling file system waaaaay before Windows 95 was even released.
- xeeeeeeeeeeenu 8y agoBeOS was indeed great, but its first version was released a few months after Win95.
- k_sze 8y agoThe release was after Windows 95, but I thought they had those modern OS features already working long before that?
- pmiller2 8y agoSo what? Windows 95 was terrible. It was just prettier than what came before it, and had a pre-existing library of software that would work with it (i.e. every MSDOS app).
- Lammy 8y agoYou say those like they aren’t both extremely important things. Windows 95 was the inflection point where desktop personal computers became “accessible” and coincided (despite their detour into MSN) with the commercialization of Internet in a way that bootstrapped our modern world. The computing world of 2019 isn’t perfect, of course, but don’t take it for granted :)
- jaclaz 8y agoWell, AFAICR at the time (on the same hardware) BeOS ran circles around any Windows OS, including Windows 98 (and besides both NT 4.00 and 2000), particularly with graphics and web/browser. And (again on same hardware) it was if not faster, much more pleasant to the eye than most Linux distros. Surely it needed less memory and processor power than the competitors or however felt on limited resources very "snappy".
- fghtr 8y agoCheck out Haiku OS: https://www.haiku-os.org/ https://www.haiku-os.org/
- raverbashing 8y agoKilled by MS anticompetitive practices