Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 2nd Jun 2003 06:10 UTC
No, BeOS is not dead as many will speed to the forums and proclaim. YellowTAB's Zeta is the true inheritor of BeOS 5's fortune, as it is based directly on Dano/EXP's codeline (which was supposed to be BeOS 6 but was never finished as Be sold its IP to Palm). At last, I got my hands on Zeta Beta-5a, and here is what I found and think of it so far. You might need to have some experience with BeOS in order to follow this article, but screenshots are included to make it easier for everyone.
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" think yT's target market is 1)Geeks and 2)BeOS fans. I bet they'll make a couple thou net profit, and then quietly fade off into promises and obscurity as the world moves to 64 bit computing"
I think you are leaving out Beos' real target market....multi-media, audio/visual.
XP is definitely better than win 95/98 but i've found that its peformance become sub-par once you push into the 24 to 36 track range if you start adding real time effects. reponsiveness fades pretty quickly.
I've heard good things about OS X behavior when loaded but pricing becomes a problem there. The premimum of a OS X machine compared to a PC is about the cost of a good studio condenser mic, a mic preamp, a decent compressor or a couple of universal audio UAD-1s (an audio effects accelerator). The opportunity cost of buying that apple is quite high though i might do it anyway.
Beos on the other hand does the job (well it would if the software were there) and does it with cheap PC hardware. Openbeos is the future as far as i am concerned but i'll definitely purchase zeta when its available.