Not dead yet...

[Steve Lamb]

Thursday, August 26, 1999, 8:45:39 AM, Anders wrote:
> Are you talking of the UI or the OS. If you are talking about the UI -
> it is a mix, but I like the mix ;o) If you are talking about the OS 
> then I totally disagree with you. It is even more hot than it's made 
> out to be ;o)

    All of it.  The OS contains a Posix layer and attempts and multi-user
support but fails.  Its terminal is completely lacking because of the
half-assed effort the put into the Posix layer, as an example.

    As for the robustness and speed of the OS itself, I was not impressed in
the least.  I guess I've been spoiled by the speed and robustness of my Linux
box which runs on hardware a generation older than what I had put BeOS on.  I
was able to crash BeOS several times in the several days I tried it.  *shrug*
I like the idea, but it is not even close to ready for prime time.

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