When they were shipping it out on their laptops they were sending the
laptops with a dual boot of Windows and BeOS, I think. Be has been out of
business for a while, I thought, but apparently you can still get the OS.
I was not aware that it ran on Linux, though.
At 04:19 PM 6/5/2002 -0400, Grammenos, Peter wrote:
I took a look at the website earlier, it can be installed on LINUX. PC only
though...
-p
-----Original Message-----
From: Giles Dickerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 4:12 PM
To: [email protected] (E-mail); Eric Scuccimarra
Subject: RE: [313] final scratch ==>> Very Appealing for these reasons
==>>
So what type of system do you need for final scratch?
- Giles
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> From: Eric Scuccimarra
> Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2002 4:05 PM
> To: Giles Dickerson; [email protected] (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [313] final scratch ==>> Very Appealing for these
reasons ==>>
>
> I think that the reason it's only written for BeOS, not Mac or Windows, is
> because of the audio latency. The last I heard they had it down to like 5
> ms or something. If anyone has ever seen BeOS in action it's pretty
> impressive. There's no way a Mac or a Windows machine could handle audio
> latency that low.
>
> And 5 ms still isn't all that great for DJ uses, at least in my opinion.
>
> At 03:58 PM 6/5/2002 -0400, Giles Dickerson wrote:
> >1. I had spine surgery 1 year ago for an injury I incurred most probably
> >from carrying my records to my radio show and DJ gigs. It caused me three
> >years of unbearable pain (anyone who knew me then can attest to this by
> >the shear number of pills I was taking) and my limp. I ended up in the
> >emergency room in New York and then on Morphine for a week and into
> >neurosurgery. I would like to avid another back injury and therefore not
> >carrying my records to gigs is very appealing.
> >
> >2. My record bag can only hold 40 - 60 records, and is limiting as I'm
> >sure you all know. You know that moment where you still have apile of
> >records you HAVE to bring with you to this gig but there's just no room!
> >With a big selection of my records on a laptop I can have a few hundred
> >tracks with me.
> >
> >3. With my music in a laptop or hard drive in my carry-on bag I never
have
> >to worry about flying / losing / breaking my records in airports /
baggage
> >claims. Ever know anyone that's had a crate of their favorite records
> >ripped off? Don't answer that.
> >
> >All this adds up to me wanting a MAC version. I'll keep buying vinyl, I
> >love listening to it at home and almost all the music I own in on wax,
but
> >come on, get that heavy record bag off my shoulder and I'm a happy
camper.
> >
> >- Giles
> >
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> >Boston, MA
> >02199
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> >office 617 369 8601
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