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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"Disagreements on how to implement proper multi-user were also present..."
This is still relevant today.
Good article Eugenia. I loved BeOS. I started using it in late 1999. I was just about the biggest Be advocate you could find (I was so proud when I bought the bundle of the BeOS Bible and BeOS 5.0!). Very sad when they closed doors.
I've always been a huge OS nut, which probably explains the current project I'm working on.