#BeOS

[never-obsolete]

Alternative OSes Maximum PC - March 2001

[adafruit]

🎄💾🗓️ Day 10: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar - BeOS 🎄💾🗓️

BeOS, developed by Be Inc. in the mid-1990s, was an operating system for multimedia applications, multitasking, and multithreading. Initially designed for the BeBox—a proprietary hardware platform featuring dual PowerPC processors—BeOS was later ported to the Macintosh and x86 architectures. Its kernel was monolithic, and the system was primarily written in C++. It featured a 64-bit journaling Be File System (BFS), which supported metadata and allowed rapid file queries and fast performance for multimedia tasks. Despite its technical strengths, including support for symmetric multiprocessing and a responsive graphical user interface, BeOS struggled to gain market traction. Development ceased in 2001 after Palm Inc. acquired Be Inc.'s assets. BeOS continues through Haiku, an open-source project aiming for binary compatibility with BeOS R5.

A bunch of resources and links for this one!

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Have first computer memories? Post’em up in the comments, or post yours on socialz’ and tag them #firstcomputer #retrocomputing – See you back here tomorrow!

[desktoparchive]

[magdalunaa]

writing a haiku in Haiku while listening to Haiku

[retrocompmx]

Sistemas Operativos: BeOS

Aquí vemos BeOS instalado en una Power Mac con procesador Power PC 604e de Motorola/IBM. Foto: @furui_ringo en Instagram #retrocomputingmx #beos #powerpc

[soapdispensersalesman]

This video is heavily fueling my autistic special interest in computers and the internet as well as the love I have for the Serial Experiments Lain franchise

[archiveosorg]

GAV

GAV (GPL Arcade Volleyball) – an object-oriented multiplatform Arcade Volleyball clone. It supports multiplayer and theme customization. It is an SDL remake of the old DOS game Arcade Volleyball. https://archivegame.org/gav/

[elecalice]

I am yet to complete the 2023 reflections.

I'm feeling to draw some OS-Tan. As well as to check more about other Operating Systems.

Is there a Be-OS OS-Tan? I know Amiga OS has an OS-Tan design, as well as Haiku. But Be-OS? I haven't find a design.

[hate-nonspace]

BeOSを最初に知ったのはパソコンが家に導入されてから買った月刊アスキーの記事だった。日立製のBeOSがインストールされたパソコンがあったはず、その記事。これがきっかけになってのちにOSにはまった。今、自分用のパソコンのOSがUbuntuなのもBeOSの記事のおかげ。

BeOSの話題が出てたのでつい書いてしまった。

[andresbravo2003]

Haiku (R1/Beta 4 - 2022) running on the HP Compaq dc5800 Small form Factor from 2008

[insightfactory]

BeOS on top, Haiku (in-development) on the bottom. 25+ year old bug fixed.

[never-obsolete]

Computer Chronicles - The New PCs (1996)

[32bitsz]

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

[elladastinkardiamou]

Is Athens going to have a new mayor tomorrow? This week's newsletter from AthensLive is out:

* Hate speech, electoral threats, and… poop

* Israelis based in Athens are heading to the front line

* One after another, public hospitals stop scheduled surgeries 

The first round of the local elections was completed the previous Sunday and it's now followed by the second round this Sunday for those municipalities and peripheries that did not manage yet to elect their representatives. There are interesting political observations to be made so far.

“Twenty flights from Athens will carry some 5,000 Israeli reservists to their home country to join the armed forces” - “A Greek warship is reportedly being deployed to the Eastern Mediterranean – it’s likely to be stationed off the Israel-Lebanon border”: We take a look how Greece is affected by the conflict at Gaza.

Finally, two big hospitals have ceased surgeries due to a lack of anesthesiologists. No one can be sure when and if they will resume. 

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[pleasestopthese]

mac classic, next and osx were calling them apps before ios and android had ever seen a public

they're packages, not just the program binary. you can open them up and see everything. it's a different paradigm from DOS-informed windows, and from the usual POSIX userspace.

i'm forty in a few months, this paradigm is old as me. surely we can understand "these are various applications of this system's capabilities." surely we can understand a package is not just a program, nor a script, but may contain both and more. surely we can understand mac classic was a very flexible system, as was next, which is literally all of the apple operating systems now.

apps isn't what's restricting your phone, and it's not restricting your computer, either. and there are systems that are not windows and are not PC-DOS derivatives, each with their own paradigms you'd know a hell of a lot more about if not for microsoft strongarming the competition out of existence.

anyway these are applications of your system's capabilities. use them, see them as examples and see if you can come up with new ones.

next, be, haiku and the apple ecosystem are all the children of mac classic. along with apps we get automation – a visual scripting language chaining actions across apps on a file, which can be called repeatedly from a menu. we get droplets – specifically described processes from a single app that can be carried out on a file, like say you want a specific kind of compression with a specific setting ready to carry out on files as they're made; now rather than opening the whole thing up, you drag and drop the droplet over the file and it does what you wanted, using minimum resources and minimum time. and we get to use bash scripts because POSIX, these aren't presented as anything but scripts; you can perform any actions you want on any files you want, using any process with hooks.

first computer i ever touched was an apple ][, not long after was a macintosh, most my life in computers has been away from windows, using either linux, a bsd (including osx) or haiku.

not to enforce gender roles but a computer should NOT fucking have apps okay. if I wanted an app I'd go on my phone my laptop is for Programs. I mean this.

[tefidacom]

"Чтение Мыслей" в Индии: Приговор за Убийство на Основе Спорной Технологии

В Индии произошёл скандальный случай: девушку осудили за убийство, не имея прямы�� доказательств, но опираясь на крайне спорную технологию "чтения мыслей".

24-летнюю Адити Шарму обвинили в отравлении её жениха ещё в 2008 году. При отсутствии вещественных доказательств и свидетелей, а также при полном отрицании вины самой обвиняемой, следователи применили метод BEOS (Brain Electrical Oscillation Signature Profiling).

Принцип работы BEOS прост: на голову подозреваемого надевается шлем с электродами, ему задают вопросы, и затем считывается реакция мозга. Если мозговые волны указывают на то, что человек "помнит" события изнутри, это трактуется как признание.

BEOS рекламируется как технология с точностью до 90%. Однако возникает острый вопрос: что делать с оставшимися 10%? В случае ошибки такая система может несправедливо сломать жизнь невиновного человека.

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