17 Jan
2019
17 Jan
'19
3:10 p.m.
On 1/17/19 10:43 AM, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
For those not familiar, Be was a company launched by Jean Louis Gassie (spelling) of Apple. He I believe was the guy behind Apple's 55% profit margin (Source the Jim Carrolton book.)
Be was pretty good multimedia wise, good multitasking, was not decaying in that it was cleanly designed that updates and upgrades never harmed the root OS files I believe. It existed for the BeBox which was a dual PPC machine, Mac and PC hardware.
And it lives on in Haiku! https://www.haiku-os.org/ -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe."