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Building a full text search tool for Haiku (http://haiku-os.org http://haiku-os.org). Fun times :)

• allenbrunson 17y ago
  i actually worked at be, back in the day, before they went out of business. i've since moved on to macosx, but beos was pretty cool for that time period.
  • GeneralMaximus 17y ago
    Cool. What did you work on? Just curious.
    • allenbrunson 17y ago
      i did my best work on beos before i worked at be, unfortunately. this is what got me hired: http://www.platinumball.net/pineapple/news/beos/ http://www.platinumball.net/pineapple/news/beos/ be had their "focus shift" shortly before i started. after that, they were no longer pushing beos as a standalone product. they repurposed it as an os for embedded devices. the whole company was working on the ill-fated sony evilla when i got there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_eVilla http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_eVilla it was pretty obvious to me and most of my fellow employees i talked to that this product was not going to be a success. it wasn't. be went out of business seven months after i got there and i was laid off. would have been a good experience if i'd jumped on the bandwagon two or three years earlier, i bet.