General religious wars (was Re: Editor religious wars)

Seems to me that one of the bragging points about BeOS (and even moreso when you consider the dual CPU BeBox) was the multithreaded nature of the apps and OS. At the time it came out ISTR that they claimed none of the other desktop OSs did that quite as well. I can't really say one way or the other, but I do remember being impressed with it when I first played with it as well. ________________________________ From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Sent: Wed, January 27, 2010 3:25:41 PM Subject: Re: General religious wars (was Re: Editor religious wars) I like the interface, and I like the unique nature of its kernel. It feels very much like a cross between the Classic Mac OS and POSIX, and given Gassee's history, that sort of makes sense. That occupies a sweet spot for me which is why I'm so fond of Power MachTen. I have to admit I don't find it insanely useful, but that's because BeOS on the PPC suffered badly thanks to Apple, and all the BeOS and Haiku development that matters is x86. So whatever things I've wanted to use on it I've had to build myself (lynx, perl, ...) Fortunately it comes with a MetroWerks compiler, and thanks to Classilla I am *intimately* familiar with that compiler's quirks :) I put some more RAM in it (which had the strange effect of breaking SheepShaver, which couldn't handle the extra memory, I guess) and did some twiddling, and it's up to where I like it and tinker with it often. So, I guess you could say I like it because it's different and odd, yet still workably familiar. I like OS/2 for much the same reasons, although interestingly I don't know how many BeOS fans like OS/2. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters. -- Ambrose Bierce --------