Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 4th Jun 2004 06:22 UTC
PalmSource ain't gonna make a birthday party for BeOS but it would only be fair if the rest of us, [ex-]users, remember the "media OS" as the innovative operating system of the late '90s, still used by some. Depending on how you count, it was early 1994 when the first BeOS version left the Be, Inc. offices and headed toward Be's "partners" and "developers". It was 1994 when the word started to spread around among geeks about this "new and exciting" OS and soon, external devs got access to it.
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Yes, I can KDL BeOS pretty easily too. Depends a lot on the kind of applications and drivers you use. My husband was only using Be-derived software and never had problems. I, on the other hand, wanted to download the latest and greatest apps from BeBits.com and there I had it: my BeOS was always more unstable than his. Not many programmers could grasp the viciously multithreaded nature of BeOS: read previous stories on osnews and comments from ex-Be engineers about the problem itself.