[vcf-midatlantic] Now: BeBox Was: NeXT

Glenn Holmer cenbe at kolabnow.com
Thu Jan 17 15:10:36 EST 2019


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."


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