![]() ![]() It booted liked a charm and went from power-on to full GUI in ~25 seconds on a PIII running at 1.0 GHz with 32 Mb RAM and no hard-drive. I obtained my copy of R4.5 DemoCD after ~5 years of daily searches on eBay and was extremely lucky as no-one else was much interested. Getting a copy is now challenging - one must either have a friend who is also a BeOS fanatic or be patient and bid appropriately when one comes up for auction on eBay. Once someone has that then, many ways still exist to feel the BeOS experience first hand: Pentium is minimum requirement.I don't know if it can manage with the AMD and Cyrix 586s. but it is high on the agenda of systems to aquire for my collection)Īnd finally, this is outside the scope of this category, but is the new implementation (Haiku) based off the actual BeOS Pro OS or is it a new, ground up OS based loosely on the original BeOS. Will the Risc version (if I am correct in assuming it exists) could it be installed on an Silicon Graphics unit? (I don't own one yet. I see software versions for PowerPC (assumably machintosh?) and x86, altho the bebox itself was apparantly Risc. Are we talking Pentium Pro 200's or could I get an old server with a pair (or 4 :D) of xeon 500's? (once again, is a p3 500 too 'modern'?) The OS is apparantly designed to run on multi processor systems. Is that too modern? Or do I need to get back into something more pentium I oriented. I have some really cool compaq (i know, cool and compaq in the same sentence.) desktop computers I got at a school auction that are 933+ mhz P3's. ![]() ![]() I see that the Bebox type computers were 66/133 mhz risc machines. They do not however give a very clear definition of what a modern computer is. On bebits website they state that BeOS doesn't run well on modern computers. ![]() Rather than hijack an existing thread I figured the best thing for me to do was to create a new one.Īfter some recent info I picked up regarding BeOS I have a few questions about it that I can't seem to find answered fully on Google. ![]()
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