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   adafruit (adafruit@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 00:24:58 JST adafruit

   🎄💾🗓️ Day 10: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar - BeOS 🎄💾🗓️

   BeOS, developed by Be Inc. in the mid-1990s, was an operating system for multimedia applications, multitasking, and multithreading. Initially designed for the BeBox—a proprietary hardware platform featuring dual PowerPC processors—BeOS was later ported to the Macintosh and x86 architectures.

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     adafruit (adafruit@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 00:35:16 JST adafruit

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     Its kernel was monolithic, and the system was primarily written in C++. It featured a 64-bit journaling Be File System (BFS), which supported metadata and allowed rapid file queries and fast performance for multimedia tasks. Despite its technical strengths, including support for symmetric multiprocessing and a responsive graphical user interface, BeOS struggled to gain market traction.

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     mmu_man (mmu_man@m.g3l.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 11:40:37 JST mmu_man

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     @adafruit if you don't know how much it struggled:

     https://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/

     They had one contract to preload BeOS on a PC, but Microsoft said no.

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