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I wouldn't say there was nothing special about it, given the limitations at the time. Having threads spawn quickly, and quickly move between threads so fast as
by adastra22 2y ago
I wouldn't say there was nothing special about it, given the limitations at the time. Having threads spawn quickly, and quickly move between threads so fast as to have no visible user latency was one hell of a feat on BeOS hardware--a 66MHz PowerPC dual-CPU system, IIRC.
But yeah, it's something we take for granted today.
- amy-petrik-214 2y agoyea it was cool dual CPU hardware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox those two green lights on the front were CPU load per each CPU. and the geekport reminscent of Raspberry pi only later did they port it to x86, similar to NeXT.
- caycep 2y agoalso it looked like Optimus prime, that was kinda cool at the time