BeOS

I have come across a new operating System. Well, It's not exactly new; it was bought up by palm inc back before the split, but it's new to me. It's called BeOS.

Contrary to Stephen's tastes, it was first made for a prototype called the Hobbit, a Steve Jobs designed 68X00 based computer with sevral DSPs inside. At the time, a DSP controlled computer was a new Idea. However, AT&T (the provider of the DSP ships) cut their funding, so Jobs desided to throw in a PowerPC chip instead (that seemed to be the thinking for all sorts of computing things back then...). Thus was born the BeBox PC, with BeOS supporting it.

Jobs was quick to sell out on this though. He ported BeOS to a single PowerPC chip based system; mainly PowerMacs and iMacs. He went out further not only by porting it to the x86 platform (you may know it as a PC, though it fits a far larger spectrum then just IBM based shit), but also making it able to run on Windows and even Linux through leaving system files on the partition and booting via Boot Disc. Of corse, it had a partition editor and you could install it to BeFS, an extremely fast and clean 64-bit (journaling?) filesystem.

Let me say that BeOS had supprised me a lot. it has a lot of support for about anything.

Damn my short attention span. I want to play around in it more.