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That's what you got with BeOS...throw out backward compatibility and build to current Best practices...it's ability to extract performance out of an 133 Mhz processor was amazing.


Even better was the BeBox running BeOS. That was a cool use of a fast dual CPU PowerPC platform with great graphics. Amiga vibes. But turns out that humans need software applications more than they need efficient use of the hardware.


It was the story with so many things "back then" - even Itanium was a beast on custom-coded perfect applications.




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