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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I've been using BeOS since 1998 when Be contacted me and asked was I interested in porting my Amiga audio software. At the time I had started using windows and was wondering why it sucked so much, I was previously an Amiga user so I was used to a much more stable and faster system than Win 9x.
I installed BeOS and it was just like the Amiga: fast, responsive, multitasked very well and didn't crash. It's been the main OS on my PC ever since, the Mac I did the review of a while back wasn't actually mine so when it went back a couple of months ago I switched back to BeOS as my main OS.
The good timing I refer to is the fact that I was planning on switching to OS X - today!