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'm gettin' all emotional an' shit.
It is funny how companies like Bugatti and Lamborghini (sp?) can stick around, selling just a handfull of products per year. Mind you, I'm not comparing BeOS to a super car, but I guess there really isn't a place in the computing market for a niche desktop platform. It would be wonderful if there was as much choice and variety in operating systems as there is in the auto market.
Ten years, am I really that old? Be was really my favorite operating system for a long, long time. I started recieving Be cds at the PR1 stage, and was a registered developer in college (though I never really produced much).
My favorite BeOS memory:
One time I was testing out a custom app I had written (in PR2?). There was some kind of GPF or some such bug in my code which caused the app to crash. I had been running from the command line, and on std out came the following messge:
"Oh f*ck. You should never ever be here."
I nearly fell out of my chair laughing. I never had an OS swear at me before, and I never have since.
Good times.