Wii outdoes the the PS3
Hiptop/Sidekick outdoes the iPhone
And the PSP beats all of the above.
And somehow I'm amused that someone visited the site once on BeOS
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Wii outdoes the the PS3
Hiptop/Sidekick outdoes the iPhone
And the PSP beats all of the above.
And somehow I'm amused that someone visited the site once on BeOS
Where do you fit in?
Wii outdoes the the PS3
Hiptop/Sidekick outdoes the iPhone
And the PSP beats all of the above.
And somehow I'm amused that someone visited the site once on BeOS
Where do you fit in?
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WOW, BeOS, that amuses me as well.
Raz, BeOS was this Operating System started back in the early 90's for these computer systems called BeBox. It was built to take advantage of more media intensive things like multi-processor systems, blah blah blah. Anyways, the company behind it (Be Inc) tossed the project years ago and it now is open-source goodness made public by some other company, enthusiasts modify it and port it all over the place.
Nobody uses it though... well, I've yet to meet anyone that is. I ONCE put it on a computer just to see it, not my kinda thing.
oh and the ipod touch has a web browser i think.
Raz, BeOS was this Operating System started back in the early 90's for these computer systems called BeBox. It was built to take advantage of more media intensive things like multi-processor systems, blah blah blah. Anyways, the company behind it (Be Inc) tossed the project years ago and it now is open-source goodness made public by some other company, enthusiasts modify it and port it all over the place.
Nobody uses it though... well, I've yet to meet anyone that is. I ONCE put it on a computer just to see it, not my kinda thing.
oh and the ipod touch has a web browser i think.
I think I visited it once on my Wii... Any other time it's Windows.
Atari 2600 (AV mod), NES, SNES (region switch for PAL), Virtual Boy, Gamecube, Wii (D2CKey), PSX (Stealth V), PS2 (independence exploit w/ 160 GB HDD), Goldstar 3DO, Philips CD-i, Dreamcast, Saturn (racketboy's chip), Sega Genesis 2 + CD2 + 32X + Power Base Converter, Game Gear.
BeOS was pretty cool back in the day -- from a technical standpoint it blew away both Windows and MacOS.
It was in the running against NeXTStep for what would become MacOS X.
For a while I ran it on my Pentium II as a secondary OS.
It was in the running against NeXTStep for what would become MacOS X.
For a while I ran it on my Pentium II as a secondary OS.
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I think Palm currently owns BeOS, or they recently spun it off. Either way, there will never be another commercial BeOS. The Haiku open source OS project intends to replicate and improve on BeOS, however. They're moving too damn slowly, though. They have good app compatibility but not enough of the basics to be usable by most people.
BeOS was an ugly OS in some ways, but it was one of the coolest around. It was lean, fast, and powerful. The file system (BFS) had completely user-configurable metadata. You could assign the ID3 tags of an MP3 file to be file data along side file size and modification date. It also meant you could do OS level file searches for crazy shit like media file bit rate and so on. And this was back in the mid-'90s. Apple and Microsoft are only now really starting to take that model seriously.
BeOS was an ugly OS in some ways, but it was one of the coolest around. It was lean, fast, and powerful. The file system (BFS) had completely user-configurable metadata. You could assign the ID3 tags of an MP3 file to be file data along side file size and modification date. It also meant you could do OS level file searches for crazy shit like media file bit rate and so on. And this was back in the mid-'90s. Apple and Microsoft are only now really starting to take that model seriously.