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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quite late (2000 i think), after reading an article Eugenia wrote for the PAIN demoscene diskmag about the benefits of using BeOS to write demos. I was impressed with what I read and downloaded a copy of R5 from Be.com and was one of the lucky few where everything worked out of the box (modex, graphics, everything). A month later and I bought GoBe Productive and BeOS 5 from gobe.
I only wish I had found out about it sooner as I just managed to catch the dieing gasps.
Happy Birthday BeOS.