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BeOS is a high performance desktop operating system made by Be that runs on Motorola/IBM PowerPC and Intel/Cyrix/AMD Pentium.
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BeBox
Intended purpose
server/mainframe: Only low end servers can run on this operating system.
desktop/workstation: general desktop and content creation workstations
handheld: not appropriate
real time: not appropriate
Kind of OS: proprietarye66
“BeOS is not a properitary unix! Its completly new!!!! Nothing is coming from unix, not the kernel, etc. NOTHING! It’s only posix compliant! Nothing more.” —Marco Schmoeckere66
Release Date: 1995
- BeOS: October 1995, “Be publicly shows the BeOS for the first time. At that time, Be builds a proprietary hardware called the BeBox (which is a dual PowerPC machine, roughly a boosted PReP machine).”e79
- Dr6 (developer release): January 1996e79
- Dr7 (developer release): April 1996e79
- Dr8 (developer release): September 1996e79
- Advanced Access Preview Release: May 1997e79
- PR (preview release): July 1997e79
- PR2 (preview release): October 1997e79
- Release 3 for Intel x86: March 1998e79
- Release 3 for PowerPC: April 1998e79
- Release 3.1: June 1998e79
- Release 3.2: July 1998e79
Current Version: Release 4
Kernel: proprietarye81
“BeOS’ kernel is ‘prioprietary’. It uses its own kernel (small but not really micro-kernel because it includes the file system and a few other things).” —Hubert Figuièree81
- preferred file system: befse29 “The BeOS filesystem (BFS) is a 64-bit journalled filesystem with support for arbitrary file attributes on any node (ie, you can apply them to directories and symlinks as well as regular files).”e76
- file systems can read/write/format: befse29
- file systems can read/write: HFSe26, VFATe29, FATe28
- file systems read only and can write through optional software: ISO 9660e28
- file systems can read/write through third party or optional software: FAT32e82, NFSe29
Text Command Shell: standard UNIX shells (default shell is bash)
Graphic Command Shell: Trackere80
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screen shot courtesy of Pat Gunn’s Operating Systemsw57
Other:
“It may have a few flaws, but I have yet to see any OS get the performance out of that cheap $60 video card that Be gets. It has, by far, the smoothest, most responsive UI I’ve seen yet. Designed to be a media editing machine, once it gets some real hardware support, it’ll hit its intended mark well.” —Arthur Corlisse78
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further reading: books
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further reading: books: introductory/general
The BeOs Bible; by Scot Hacker, Chris Herborth, Henry Bortman; Peachpit Press; December 1998; ISBN 0201353776; paperback; 650 pages; $27.99
further reading: books: administration
further reading: books: internet
further reading: books: enterprise/business
further reading: books: content creation
further reading: books: programming
Be Developer’s Guide (Book 1); by the Be Development Team; O’Reilly & Associates; December 1997; ISBN 1565922875; paperback (with CD-ROM); 950 pages; $39.96
BeOS: Porting Unix Applications; by Martin C. Brown; Morgan Kaufman Publishers; June 1998; ISBN 1558605320; paperback; 500 pages; $44.95
Inside the BeOS; Modern File System Design; by Be Inc. Dominique Giampaolo; Morgan Kaufmann Publishers; October 1998; ISBN 1558604979; paperback; 250 pages; $27.96
further reading: books: hardware
further reading: books: miscellaneous
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