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Keep in mind that BeOS was released in 1995. BeOS had pervasive multithreading and a slick UI. The BeBox had dual CPUs, a novelty at the time and many years b
by rjrjrjrj 7mo ago
Keep in mind that BeOS was released in 1995.
BeOS had pervasive multithreading and a slick UI.
The BeBox had dual CPUs, a novelty at the time and many years before multi-core CPUs.
Linux was still very new, and didn't have much of a GUI at all (maybe basic X, but this was long before Gnome, KDE, Englightment, etc)
Mac System 7 didn't have protected memory or preemptive multitasking.
Windows 95 was brand new and while a big improvement over Windows 3.1, was still very prone to crashing.
- bobsalt 7mo ago^this, plus being able to play 3-4 quicktime videos at the same time smoked everyones brains around me. Using mac os 8/9 was a several times a day cursor freezing up and having to reboot. win95 was even worse
- rjrjrjrj 7mo agoI think I'm remembering this correctly - couldn't you move the window while the video inside continued to play?
- ranger_danger 7mo agoYes you could! Windows did have (at some point) "show window contents while dragging" option, but it was quite slow at the time, and I don't remember if it supported showing (overlay) video content while moving or not.
- vondur 7mo agoThe one that blew my mind was you can drop a QuickTime movie onto each side of a 3d cube and they all played without dropping frames.