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    From Jeff Smith@1:282/1031 to Nick Andre on Monday, August 03, 2020 02:16:40

    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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  • From Danny Walters@1:116/116 to Jeff Smith on Wednesday, September 02, 2020 13:23:43
    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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