A couple of BeOS posts and another link
befunk.com
from Tom's Hardware forum
tomshardware.com
From: The Monkey-Boy (GKOMMET)
To: Jay Atkinson (JATKINSN)
Posted: 4/24/98 3:47:00 PM
Ah, the joys of a 32-bit system with no leagcy code to support. Everything is multi-threaded, too,so the P5 and P6 classes of processors, which can do multithreading, are vey happy.
But don't be too hard on Win 9x. It has a lot of flaws, a lot of old crap to support, but a lot of good, well developed apps, too. Be even uses Win NT for it's LAN and Internet servers (I'm studying to be a Network Administrator on WinNT, and I'd love to work for Be), so it can't be all bad. 98 is doing some relatively interesting stuff (I think Be should co-opt it for their own use :-), like loading drivers if/when you need them, not on boot, etc.
Now, when Netscape ports to Be (not too far off), and there is a good office program like Corel, MS (yeah, right), or Claris available, I think Be will grab some home market share, especially among the techno-savvy like current Linux users. Think of how fast apps would come out. Every CPU type that Be supports needs its own compiler, but any code written for BeOS will instantly port to all Be platforms upon compiling for that CPU.
______________________________________________________________________
From: Jay Atkinson (JATKINSN)
To: The Monkey-Boy (GKOMMET)
Posted: 4/24/98 6:02:00 PM
Well, I'm not even going to bother wasting my money on 98:-) To me, I don't think it is worthpaying the price of a new OS, for what appears to be a more robust Win95 even with the added WDM. I'm just going to hang onto my dollars and wait for WinNT 5.0, so I can happily delete 95. The only reason I hang onto 95 is because of the support for my games:-) Right now, I have Win95/WinNT4.0/BeOS/Red Hat Linux. Yes, I'm an OS geek;-) I use 95 for games and programming a game I'm helping to develop(ports for BeOS and Linux later on), since directx5.0 isn't fully supported by NT, and WinNT for word processing/internet/ everything else. BeOS to play around with at the moment and starting to develop a driver for my internal modem, and Linux (use at work too) to do some work at home along with some programming as well.
Now, if we can just get more ports for popular games on BeOS. Games are what can really utilize the power of BeOS especially since the OS will automatically use SMP (for those lucky multiprocessor people) even if an application doesn't specifically call for it. Some really good games could be developed to go with MP systems. Just dedicating a thread on another processor for AI could improve AI tremendously.
So my favorite OS's are BeOS and Linux with NT in second:-) |
