Bye bye Be

That's too bad, Be always did look promising and like an interesting OS, from what I've heard of it. Oh well, another one bits the dust...
 
I thought this thread was going to be a painful disscussion about boy bands, headlined by a mispelled "bye bye bye." Boy, am I ever glad. Goodbye Be.
 
I'm going to be sorry to see it go - I actually downloaded/used it once, although problems with it seeing my PPPoE connection prevented me from using it for any long period of time. I found it intuitive, fun to work with, and I have to admit, it never crashed on me.

I am sorry to see it go. But to me, Be was a niche product that never really found a niche - it tried to grab the media/editing market, and that already belonged to mac. It never sought a presence on the home user desktop and I think that's partially where it faltered.

Brian
 
And then of course, when they couldn't grab any other niche, they tried pushing BeOS as the ideal for set-top devices. By then it was too late - Linux and other Open source miracles had won the tech-head and student market, Mac still had full control of media, publishing, etc. And M$ owned everything else.
It is a pity, as BeOS was actually a very good OS. It never crashed on me, either, and I ran it on utter junk.
If they have any sense, they could just release the code into the public domain. After all, there is no saving the company now, but the Open Source crowd might make something of the product.
 
There was also the fact that it, quite simply, was ahead of it's time. I believe it could handle up to something like an assload and a half of RAM... unfortunately, at that time, RAM wasn't the bottle neck it will be in the future.

Brian.
 
The amount of RAM won't be the bottleneck for computers anytime soon. It's going to be the speed of the RAM (DDR vs. PC133 vs. PC100), the speed of the bus (HyperTransport vs. crummy 133 MHz bus), and the size and speed of the L2 and L3 cache, as well as the processor speed.

I already have an assload and a half of RAM, and OS X can handle it quite well.



About Be: I don't know much about it, and I never used the BeOS, so I can't say it holds much sentimental value for me. However, I do know that it seemed to be a good operating system and that it was run by former Apple employees, so I kind of did have a sad reaction when reading that MacCentral article (aided by the fact that the title was "The Sun Sets on Be Inc."). Ah, well... yet another operating system bites the dust. Let's hope I never say that about the MacOS.
 
I have a demo of Be for Intel platforms. It only works on
a limited range of PC's b/c of drivers and such. It was quite
a pain to find one that Be could run on.
 
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almost all of the great developers now work there...they are making the newest coolest gadget ever (no I dont work there, nor am I associated in anyway with them...just like new toys...)
 
*sigh*...
I've used BeOS on macs and PeeCees.
I loved it, it was absolutelly a nice OS. I even bought the OS 5 professional version.

I hope palm makes something good ouf of it, open sources the code for BeOS and let the loyal hobbyists take care of it as a desktop OS.

Be...you rock :D



Admiral
 
Originally posted by simX
I already have an assload and a half of RAM, and OS X can handle it quite well.
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Mee too... I get the impression that OSX can't handle anything but an assload and a half of ram - it crawls on my 128MB TiBook.

More Be-likeness in OSX would be a good thing...

Bernie :eek:)
 
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