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1: <b>Update 2002-06-05:</b> Be, Inc changed their strategy a long time \\
2: ago so that their OS is targetted at embedded devices. In any case, \\
3: I'm much more interested now in the idea of Java being the solution \\
4: to the OS lock-in problem. The BeOS was a great OS, but they never had \\
5: a Java interpreter, so that was a problem.\\
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18: On January 1, 1999 I installed <FONT COLOR=blue>B</FONT><FONT COLOR=red>e</FONT>OS \\
19: R4. My initial impressions are highly favorable. It installed on a second \\
20: partition quickly and without any problems at all. It's very speedy \\
21: and responsive. WinNT 4 is extremely sluggish when compared to the <FONT COLOR=blue>B</FONT><FONT COLOR=red>e</FONT>OS \\
22: (running on the same machine). The <FONT COLOR=blue>B</FONT><FONT COLOR=red>e</FONT>OS \\
23: boots in roughly 15 seconds while WinNT 4 takes about 3 minutes 45 seconds. \\
24: All <FONT COLOR=blue>B</FONT><FONT COLOR=red>e</FONT>OS applications \\
25: load in less than a second. Few WinNT applications beyond notepad and \\
26: calc can claim that. \\
27: \\
28: Programming for the <FONT COLOR=blue>B</FONT><FONT COLOR=red>e</FONT>OS \\
29: is far easier than programming for Windows. The C++ API is quite beautiful \\
30: (especially when compared to the kludgy clunky API for Windows). \\
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33:  <A HREF="http://www.beincorporated.com/"><IMG SRC="http://g42.org/images/BeOriginal.gif" WIDTH=87 HEIGHT=25 ALT="The BeOS!"></A> \\
34:  <A HREF="http://www.beincorporated.com/"><IMG SRC="http://g42.org/images/BeOSNow.gif" WIDTH=90 HEIGHT=30 ALT="The BeOS!"></A><BR>\\
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