Revision as of 13:34, 3 November 2008

What was BeOS?

revisionist OS, based of all of the good stuff about unix, but none of the cruft...made for the "media professional"

Why BeOS said about the individual using the personal computer?

highly political example of something created to fulfill and ideal, not nessisarly used for that purpose.

What BeOS said about the technology at the time:

Brushes with success

Destroyed by wild beasts MICRO$$$ antitrust, apple not buying them

references

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eMGbDJmgv0

http://oreilly.com/catalog/beosprog/book/

http://www.beatjapan.org/mirror/www.be.com/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/02/20/be_inc_sues_microsoft/

http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=%22Be+inc.%22&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=sub

http://macspeedzone.com/archive/art/con/be.shtml The above article is excerpted from Apple Confidential: The Real Story of Apple Computer, Inc. by Owen W. Linzmayer, 1999, ISBN 1-886411-28-X,