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A quick look back at BeOS, the PC operating system that tried to challenge Windows and Mac (www.neowin.net)

submitted 2 years ago by d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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[–] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

This was a decent OS, came about in BeOS 5 when they started to run on intel. Just lacked apps. at least OS/4 Warp could run Windows apps, this was just a brand new OS with nothing yet. Shame it died out, but you can run an inspired version of it called Haiku.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Yep. I ran it on my 450MHz Pentium III back in the day - was incredibly fast and felt so ahead of it's time, especially it's multimedia and multitasking performance, as well as the fast boot speeds. It was my second favorite OS back then.

[–] wjrii@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I recall rumors that when it came to version 10 of Mac OS, Apple knew they needed outside help, and the choice came down to BeOS on the one hand, or NeXT (including ol' Stevie J) on the other.

[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Apple was negotiating to buy Be, but they couldn’t agree on a price. The rumours were that Be was asking too much.

The Apple board also favoured NeXT, and the rest is history.

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