BeOS - The Forgotten ‘90s Operating System (Retrospective & Demo)

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  @tristanraine · 3 years ago

  Fun fact, BeOS was referenced in Serial Experiments Lain, as the "To Be continued" used the BeOS colours in the word "Be"

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  @andykras · 3 years ago

  Fun fact: The superuser in BeOS was called "baron"

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  @robbirobson7330 · 3 years ago

  BeOS was a great OS, there was a demonstration where they played 13 mp3 songs simultaneously on a pentium 100 or 133 or so where windows could barely manage to play one without stuttering.

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  @TheGoatstep · 3 years ago

  Fun fact: BeOS is/was actually used in a lot of professional audio/video equipment, like the RADAR 24 24-track audio recorder, Edirol DV-7 video editor made by Roland, and Tascam SX-1 audio recorder - so it did have some success in the A/V professions

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  @uselessDM · 3 years ago (edited)

  It's sad they never lived into the cloud computing era, introducing their newest product: BeHive

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  @antibrevity · 1 year ago

  Nobody forgot about BeOS; it's been legendary since the day it appeared.

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  @TheRandomChannel_idk · 3 years ago (edited)

  Fun Fact: The Fake Windows Whistler (what would become Windows XP) Shutdown Sound actually came from BeOS 5. The actual startup and shutdown are all from Windows 2000.

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  @Hutch2Much · 3 years ago

  i absolutely love the look of BeOS. its shading is so soft, it’s pixel art is great, and the tabs look better than the window system of other operating systems imo

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  @RichardHoule · 3 years ago

  Haha. I actually wrote device drivers for BeOS!<br><br>It had some interesting features and design. But it had flaws.<br><br>For example, the multithreaded UI was something that a lof of developer ended having problems to work with. If I remember correctly, instead of having the concept of a &quot;main thread&quot;, they had one thread per window. Which is something that no other operating system was doing. It was easy to create race condition if your underlying model was aware of that. (Hint: Still today, most application are poorly threaded!)

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  @eriksiers · 3 years ago

  I bought BeOS 5 for the PC. It was a great OS but had little support from the industry.

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  @Amitopia-TV · 3 years ago

  AmigaOS was heavily used still in Europe, South America, Asia etc. BeOS even got AmigaOS components such as the datatypes. AmigaOS was the most successful operating system for the home. PCs were still very expensive when Windows 95 came. Most families didn&apos;t have that amount of cash. <br><br>Commodore went down in 1994, but AmigaOS survived for years because of its power of being very user-friendly to users and developers. <br><br>But if you look at USA and Japan as the world, then I understand since Commodore failed totally in these markets. Elsewhere, Amiga was the computer to have.

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  @higgs923 · 3 years ago

  Thank you! I was one of EarthLink&apos;s founder employees and I was tasked with evaluating BeOS for the company&apos;s use. It was fun seeing it all again.

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