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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If it hadn't been for BeOS and BeNews, I never would have found OSNews!
I remember trying two different versions of BeOS. The first one I ordered directly from the company on a cheap promotion. I don't remember if it was R4 or what. Unfortunately my hardware didn't support it so I couldn't run it. I kept promising myself that I would upgrade and build a compatible box, but I never did.
A year or two later, R5 came out and I got it on a coverdisk. I had change my CPU, so I could get it to work but only in black and white. I found the VESA driver on BeBits and I was able to get it to work properly.
Anyway, coming from an Amiga background I always thought that BeOS was the successor to the Amiga.