At 07:20 PM 9/24/99 -0300, you wrote:
>> BeOS is worth watching as it is the only product actually positioned to
>> give Microsoft a run in the consumer/video/audio/graphics market. BeOS
>> leaves all legacy behind and only looks forward. Go to www.be.com since
>> they can explain better than I.
>>
>> Just for the record I also love old so called "junk" SURVPCs and truly
>> believe in keeping a computer going instead of putting it in the garbage.
>
>The thing with Be is that the minimum system requirements are
>listed at a Pentium with 32 megs of RAM and 150 megs hard drive
>space. You might be able to get away with a fast 486 with the RAM
>and HD space, but I've never tested that theory, and it wouldn't be a
>supported configuration. It's definitly not going to be the OS of
>choice for most on this mailing list, I would assume.
>
You are correct. In fact the more hardware you throw at it the better. But it makes
use of the hardware unlike Win9x. Intel demonstrated an 8 way Xeon system at some
presentation announcing the technology and the OS they used to demo the power of the
silicon was the BeOS.
A pentium (Be does not run on 486 or lower) with at least 32 MB RAM is required and a
minimum of 500 MB partition. This configuration's only application is to allow you to
see what Be looks like and some of the applications. It sets up easily as dual boot on
your Win9x/NT system.
I know BeOS is not keeping with the theme of this list and the only reason I responded
about BeOS was to a posting shooting it down for not having a database application for
it. Funny thing is database snobs do not consider Access, Foxpro, etc as real
databases and I would tend to agree with them. A real database is DB2, Oracle, SQL
Server, etc running as an entity serving requests from multiple users. Be's focus is
power to the user sitting at the computer in the realm of multimedia and not to make
BeOS a great server like Unixware, NT, Linux, AS/400, etc.
I like to look three ways; Back (SURVPCs), Forward (BeOS, Linux, PowerPC, etc) and
Present (Windows NT, Linux).
Hal.
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