Rod Lavington on 23/12/01 11:49 AM, wrote: > On 22/12/01 6:06 PM, "Paul S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >> Wasn't BEoS just a (draws breath) hobbyist OS, were there any drivers, apps, >> was it able to be used commercially (other than linux type servers) please >> excuse my ignorance, I've never seen it run, although I've heard a lot about >> it. >> >> Cheers, Paul > > I think you hit the nail on the head with the last sentence! Yep, we heard > a lot about it, but never saw it running. The last personal version they > released was a freebie (the personal version), but for PCs only. I guess if > you fired up VirtualPC you might be able to get it to work.
I think the point is being missed. Be OS didn't carry too much in the way of driver overheads, etc but consider it was running on a first generation Power PC chip with the huge sum of 34 megabytes of RAM. Others have said that it was stunningly fast on Pentium 233's. Compare that to Mac OS X running on fourth generation processors that have between 4-8x faster clock speeds, 3x the bus bandwidths and a measly 1,000 megabytes RAM. Sure Mac OS X carries some compatibility baggage as well as hits from drivers, a supposed printing architecture and plenty of UI candy but can that really account for the huge discrepancy in efficiency? Is it really just a perception thing? Gee the finder always took a while to update, I just never noticed it before. Am I the only one to think it could be faster given the state of current hardware? Cheers Troy. PS: I think the UWA Computing club might still have an original Be Box for those interested.
