Hello Nick!

31 Jul 20 10:11, you wrote to Danny Walters:

On 26 Jul 20 21:15:48, Danny Walters said the following to Nick
Andre:

Whatever became of BeOS... wasn't that the OS that instead of
debugging information on a halt-condition it actually

recited

poetry or haiku?

I ran that here for a little while. I think I bought the other
copy. I'll give them props, it was fast.

I heard from others that it really was an underrated OS in many ways.

I ran BEOS for a short time in the early to mid 90's. At the time I
thought it had potential as an alternative to MacOS and Windows of that
time. I opted though for a more Debian based Linux OS as BEOS seemed
somewhat limited to running software only written for BEOS.

Jeff


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Jeff Smith said to Nick Andre:

I opted though for a more Debian based Linux OS as BEOS
seemed somewhat limited to running software only written for BEOS.

My memory is very fuzzy on the subject, but I seem to recall that a lot of linux packages would build on the BeOs compiler with little to no changes. I remember very vaguely building a couple of simple things successfully, I could not begin to tell you how.

I had high hopes for it actually.

-dw


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