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 remember that it as the R4 demo that caught my attention - a few days later, I ordered the full version and decided to sell my Amiga in favor of a BeOS-powered x86.
Be Inc was a cool company too - it had that certain 'geek' flair, and the employees were great people too (I had the pleasure of meeting some Be engineers and visiting Be Incs offices shortly before they closed).
I still profit from having learnt C++ on BeOS - in contrast to most of the rest, I learnt to deal with threading issues from the beginning and that helps me a lot when programming on other systems using threading.