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This is something that has bothered me for a long time. I ran BeOS full time for a year or two on a 100Mhz Pentium with 40MB of RAM and it flew. No matter how
by daeken 15y ago
This is something that has bothered me for a long time. I ran BeOS full time for a year or two on a 100Mhz Pentium with 40MB of RAM and it flew. No matter how high-end I go with hardware running a 'modern' OS (Windows, Linux, or OS X), nothing manages to compare. That's a large part of the reason I stole many concepts from BeOS for my own OS, although that project is largely dead at this point (too much work, too little time).
- danudey 15y agoDo you have a solid state drive? The amount of time I spend waiting for my computer to do what I tell it to has decreased to almost imperceptible levels since I made the switch.
- daeken 15y agoI don't, but I know how big a difference they make. However, while program loading was a huge benefit to BeOS, it was a small one for me. The realtime audio stack still beats everything else, multitasking was insanely fast, etc. I haven't seen anything that can compare, to this day.
- aaronblohowiak 15y agoThere are alternative schedulers (like BFS) for linux that can decrease interactive latencies at the cost of overall throughput.
- keithnoizu 15y agoI really miss BeOS. I remember being blown away by how fast it could rip mp3s, and with how many simultaneous audio or video tracks it could handle. That old machine with it's p3 processor felt as fast and perhaps even faster than my core-i7, tri channel ram, tripple sli, raid 0 ssd workstation running *nix or windows.