dr_dank explained BeOS's awesomeness in a Slashdot post some years ago http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=66224&cid=6095472 http://tech.slashdot.org/comme

dr_dank explained BeOS's awesomeness in a Slashdot post some years ago http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=66224&cid=6095472 http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=66224&cid=60954... Here it is, pasted for posterity: So, Be fans, what makes BeOS so special? BeOS was demonstrated to me during my senior year of college. The guy giving the talk played upwards of two dozen mp3s, a dozen or so movie trailers, the GL teapot thing, etc. simultanously. None of the apps skipped a beat. Then, he pulled out the showstopper. He yanked the plug on the box. Within 20 seconds or so of restarting, the machine was chugging away with all of its media files in the place they were when they were halted, as if nothing had happened. Damn.