BeOS

Is it a meme

It was better than anything else at the time but Microsoft bullied Be out of OEM deals

>Is it a meme
Not even that now.

That's a Windows desktop OP

Is Haiku good?

Microsoft's abuse of their monopoly probably set personal computing back by at least 10 years

haiku is no good
only niggers use it now
your a idiot

1998

I remember trying it on my 486 and it was super smooth, and seemingly stable, but I was a video gaming child and went back to DOS/Windows.

>Startmenü
>Manfred
>Kerstin
>Manfred 2
>obviously german

>Recycle bin
>IconPackager

they couldn't even get the locale consistent

OP's picture is Windows, not BeOS.

Oh, so windows can't even get consistent locale settings...
Actually I'm not even surprised.

I used BeOS for a couple of months in 1999, and it was pretty cool back then (fast a fuck, stable, nice gui), but I wanted to learn Unix so I went to Slackware...
Haiku seems interesting, no time for playing with new OSes though

>tfw BeOS was Apple's initial choice for their base for OS X but the company wanted too much money so Apple went with NeXTSTEP instead

It was the best operating system at his time.

It was a meme nearly 20 years ago bro

Yes it was very good, but it didn't have the things you need for an OS to be successful: wide hardware compatibility and software.

I worked for a production house that ran beos on high-end powermacs (pre-g3 era). Those things were beasts at the time and did the job perfectly. I remember when we tested some of the new G3 machines with our software on OSX the G3s had slightly better results but the old Macs were more stable and besides, we had a lot of legacy hardware that didn't work with the G3s. We finally had to upgrade after the G4s came out when our dev team blew the director's mind with some rendering demonstration.

I think I may still have my old workstation in storage... I'll have to look.

10? Try 15 years

hiiiii

>better than anything else
>what is amiga os

Thank God, also it wasn't a money problem, BeOS was too fucked at the time to go over such a conversation, it didn't support anything that they planned for Mac OS, it was still Jobs vision, just like NeXTStep.

I thought it was because the company was asking like 3x what Apple was willing to pay for it.

BeOS was pretty fucking spiffy, but the BeBox was actually semi-crippled.

In order to make it affordable, they used PowerPC 603 (which doesn't actually support hardware SMP, lacking the 'S' state from MESI) instead of the 604. A lot of the software had to be designed to explicitly duplicate memory rather than let ping-pong thrashing slow the system to a crawl.

oh god that takes me back.

I did to, mfw I had more than one video playing at the same time on shitty specs and not even a second of lag

It's not even UNIX compatible

this

And?

it was a meme, but a good one.

what os is this im curious

Can someone remind me what purpose did BeOS's funky window titlebars served?

They sure are funky but was it just for looks?

>it looks like a nice concept to group windows as tabs in a new container windows
>i don't think window tabs were used back then

Ahhh the nostalgia.

I used it as my primary OS for a while. All I did with it was browse the web and watch videos (good job, as that's about all that was available for it)

ChromeOS before it was cool, thinking about it, or AmigaOS after it was.

you could drag them left-to-right across the top to arrange ad-hoc tabbed panes.

neat trick, but they should have just added real tabbed/tiled WM behavior support.

hipster os of the 90s
haiku took this psuedo-job over and is its hipster counterpart. Hasn't made any progress in over 15 years.

no software, no drivers, just repeat "muh nostalgia" and "muh paradigm"