I loved BeOS. It ran better than anything else on my old PIII laptop. The only problem was that there wasn't any usable software for it! Still, I might have to get a copy of this and boot it in VMW.
It's kind of funny, I was digging for one of my old motherboard manuals, and I ran across my old BeOS 5 book and installation disk. I was going to boot it up for old time's sake.
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I loved BeOS. It ran better than anything else on my old PIII laptop. The only problem was that there wasn't any usable software for it! Still, I might have to get a copy of this and boot it in VMW.
It's kind of funny, I was digging for one of my old motherboard manuals, and I ran across my old BeOS 5 book and installation disk. I was going to boot it up for old time's sake.
BeOS was the most responsive OS I have ever used; and that was on a 400Mhz K6-III with 128MB of RAM.
BeOS is a reminder of the days when code was compact, clean, and intuitive, and remarkably efficient. A lot had to be done on little power.
And for anyone who wants the best damn metaphorical comparison of OSs back in the day, look no farther than "In the beginning there was command line.
http://www.spack.org/wiki/InTheBeginningWasTheCommandLine#head-8cd12953799bb75a80f0e450b3ffb9f645282802