History of BeOS

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BeOS was an operating system developed by [Be Incorporated]? from 1990 as a media OS. Based on a BSD Unix microkernel it was optimised for digital media work - digital audio, digital video, and 3D graphics and animations. It was multiprocessor capable and emphasised high efficiency, modular I/O bandwidth and pervasive multi-threading for true preemptive multitasking, graphical flexibility, real-time responsiveness and an optimised 64-bit journaling and indexed file system. A new multithreaded GUI was developed on the principals of clarity and a clean, uncluttered design. It retained Posix compatibility and access to a CLI and bash? shell.

BeOS is an operating system that was developed by [Be Incorporated]? in 1990 as a media OS. Based on a BSD Unix microkernel it is optimised for digital media work - digital audio, digital video, and 3D graphics and animations. It is multiprocessor capable and emphasizes high efficiency, modular I/O bandwidth and pervasive multi-threading for true preemptive multitasking, graphical flexibility, real-time responsiveness and has an optimised 64-bit journaling and indexed file system. A new multithreaded GUI was developed on the principals of clarity and a clean, uncluttered design. It retains Posix compatibility and access to a CLI and bash? shell.

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Initially the OS ran on its own BeBox hardware, it was extended to cover all computers running PowerPC processors and then onto Intel processor based computers. Despite interest from Apple to replace MacOS with BeOS the system gained few followers and in 2001 Be's intellectual property was sold to Palm. BeOS 5 is considered the last version.

Initially the OS ran on its own BeBox hardware; it was extended to cover all computers running PowerPC processors and then onto Intel processor based computers. Despite interest from Apple to replace MacOS with BeOS the system did not achieve a significant marketshare. In 2001 Be's intellectual property was sold to Palm. BeOS 5 is considered the last version.