In a way, it was forward-thinking enough that if you look at a screenshot of it today you’d swear it was just any other modern Linux environment, ’90s graphical aesthetic aside. The features it introduced that were brand new at the time are now ubiquitous - things such as preemptive multitasking, journaling filesystems and an uncluttered desktop design. did.īeOS was, at the time, a foray into a new way of doing home computing. Meet The BeOS Could you imagine emailing someone a video file in 1995? Be Inc. They called it Be Inc, and their goal was to create a more modern operating system from scratch based on the object-oriented design of C++, using proprietary hardware that could allow for greater media capabilities unseen in personal computers at the time. He then also formed his own computer company with the help of another ex-Apple employee, Steve Sakoman. In 1990, Jean-Louis Gassée, who replaced Jobs in Apple as the head of Macintosh development, was also fired from the company. However, Jobs’ path wasn’t unique, and the history of computing since then could’ve gone a whole lot different. Apple then bought NeXT and their technologies and brought Jobs back as CEO once again. You’re likely familiar with the old tale about how Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple and started his own company, NeXT. It's historically interesting, but kind of awful. I only ran Next/OpenStep way after the fact, and it never had that magic. I am in the "Be's tech was at least as good as NeXT's and more suitable at the time Apple gave up on their internal processes and bought themselves a successor OS" camp on the whole Apple thing. Haiku has improved on end-of-the-line BeOS, especially with the slick way they've implemented packages in the last few years, but the hardware support makes it not a suitable daily driver. Article note: BeOS really was a glorious thing, doing the multiple media playback while remaining responsive on a Pentium MMX parlor trick in the late 90s was always a little mind-blowing.
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