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BeOS Dead

BeOS
KindOperating system
Appeared1995
Ended2001
StatusDead
CreatorBe Inc. (Jean-Louis Gassée)
FamilyIndependent
PlatformBeBox → x86
Sourcewww.haiku-os.org ↗

The media OS built from scratch — pervasive multithreading, a database filesystem; Palm bought the corpse in 2001, Haiku rebuilds it today.

Succeeded by Haiku
Ran on BeBox
Created by Jean-Louis Gassée Be Inc.
Influenced Haiku

BeOS (1995) was a clean-slate media OS — pervasive multithreading, a 64-bit journaled filesystem with database attributes, a Tracker file manager that treated files as queries. It ran circles around contemporaries on dual-PPC hardware.\n\nBe Inc. was sold to Palm in 2001; Haiku OS reimplemented it open-source and is still developed — R1/beta4 shipped 2022.

Sources

  1. haiku-os.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS