Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 3rd Oct 2002 22:12 UTC
It is always an honour to interview people who have 'served' and worked on operating systems at the "golden" times of the operating systems, the '80s and pre-Win9x days. Today we interview Adam de Boor, who was the CTO at GeoWorks, developers of the GEOS, in the begining of the last decade. Adam today works for OpenWave Systems. We discuss about GeoWorks, its past, its future, where it should have been.
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"back in the day", when I started, developing for BeOS required resume approval, and getting a devkit was $1600 for (literally) a BeBox motherboard in a roughly cut steel chassis. You had to add all the hardware in the BeBox (RAM, graphics card, HD, CD...), a monitor... and you also needed a PowerMac, with a Pro edition of CodeWarrior. Overall, counting taxes an shipping and all that, it would cost you about $5000 before you could start writing code...
I guess every framework company does the same, has limited support resources (and other limited resources, like manufacturing the actual boxes in Be's case) and tried to not waste too much time on support for too many early developers.
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