In 2001 Be’s copyrights were sold to Palm, Inc. On ME or NT 4 or later you can use a boot floppy to start the installed BeOS. Under Windows 95 and Windows 98 you can just double click an icon to exit Windows and start this version of BeOS. This version of BeOS is the Personal Edition, which can be downloaded freely from the Internet and installed under Windows. This operating system is only available in English, French and Japanese languages. BeOS basically does not run other applications that are not developed for this operating system. Designed as a single user operating system BeOS unfolds his optimal efficiency on multi-processor systems with several parallel running programs through it modern multi-thread based structure. Originally BeOS was designed for a custom computer system known as the BeBox that had special multimedia input/output features, and was later ported to the Macintosh, and finally ported to the PC.īeOS was written from scratch and does not contain obsolete operating system design concepts. Be was founded by former Apple Computer executive Jean-Louis Gassée for its own type of computer, the BeBox. I wish my computer today, with maybe 1000x the performance, understood so well that I, its user, should be its prime task.The last version | Released: 5.0.3 | August 9, 2000īeOS – an operating system for personal computers first developed by Be Inc. But they would again grab a window and drag it around the screen or resize it, and that window would leap into action at full speed while everything else on screen almost, but not quite, stuttered to a stop. Meaning that one CPU was now handling all of the tasks that had 100% utilized both CPUs a moment before. Then they would click a button that disabled one of the CPUs.

Then they would grab one of the windows and drag it around the screen showing that it was perfectly responsive while everything else slowed to a crawl. they would open up multiple apps: video players 3-D renders and the app others have mentioned that showed a book with rendered 3-D flippable pages, until both CPUs were fully pegged showing 100% CPU usage. The hardware had two either 25 MHz or 33 MHz CPUs. They had LEDs on the front panel of their original hardware that showed CPU utilization. Everyone here is talking about the amazing performance and responsiveness but no one has mentioned the demo that they did at tradeshows so:

Features of beos operating system