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It was a really beautiful, functional, svelte & fast OS. IMHO, Apple made the right decision with Next because of Jobs. I’d sure like to see the results of the
by iseanstevens 4y ago
It was a really beautiful, functional, svelte & fast OS.
IMHO, Apple made the right decision with Next because of Jobs. I’d sure like to see the results of the alternate timeline!
I still feel like Be could be great for phones/mobile, maybe VR. (Just as it was so foundationally low latency)
(Note I am aware of Haiku, etc. I’m using “Be” to mean something from its linage)
Side note - Jean-Louis Gassée, founder(?) of Be is very insightful. He writes some excellent short form tech world analysis at http://mondaynote.com/ http://mondaynote.com/
- WillAdams 4y agoNo multi-user support --- it was a non-starter. I'm much happier w/ Quartz (née Display PDF) than the typical image model division which BeOS had. That said, I really wish someone would get it (and Tron) running on a Raspberry Pi.
- jandrese 4y agoThat said it had some issues. Their network stack was just weird enough to make porting Internet applications difficult, especially web browsers. When Be first arrived this was no big deal, but it quickly grew as a sticking point for user adoption. When you can download a native FreeBSD version of Netscape, but no Be version exists and the only alternative is an older hacked up version of Mosaic you have a problem. They did eventually fix this, but it was too little too late.