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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Eugenia: In the article you claim that the AT&T Hobbit CPU's were DSP's, which is nothing further from the truth. The Hobbit's were full fledged CPUs in fact they were designed to support HLL's such as C since they were stack based and had almost no user visible registers. As such the ISA was tuned for compiler designers and not for math intensive apps like a normal DSP would. It makes little sense to use a DSP as the CPU for a general purpose computer anyways