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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>the people of yellowTAB weren't developers
>but only the publishers of BeOS-Magazine
You are very wrong on this. Bernd --who started YTAB-- was porting a very-very well known pro audio application for BeOS (that I can't mention 'cause of NDA reasons) that was never shipped in 1998-9 (it was among these "big", well known apps that Be managed to get the source code or contracts to get ported, but they never got shipped for different reasons each). The other executive person at YTAB today is an ex-Be engineer and all their other developers are BeOS third party developers, each with many apps posted on BeBits the last few years.