https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS bol skvely.
Este mam niekde doma krabicu od BeOS 4.
Skvely multithreading (zacinali s vlastnymi dvojprocesorovymi doskami a celymi pracovnymi stanicami BeBox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox https://www.applefritter.com/node/2616, ale bolo to ako stavane na dnesne lacne multicore procesory), inovativny filesystem (dynamicke metadata podobne ako ma dnes Apple, napriklad emailova sprava mala telo (obsah mailu)v subore a atributy (from, to, subject, ... ) v metadatach, mailbox bol adresar s mailami, kopirovanie mailov bolo proste kopirovanie suborov, metadata sa vedeli selektivne zobrazovat vo file browseri), prijemne GUI.
Problemom bol ale nedostatok aplikacii.
BeOS a NeXTSTEP boli kandidati na novy operacny system pre pocitace Apple po zlyhani in house vyvoja noveho OS, ale ciastocne vdaka Jobsovmu obchodnemu talentu a ciastocne kvoli vyssej vyspelosti NeXTSTEPu bol za zaklad vybrany NeXTSTEP.
Na prelome tisicrocia boli obchodne (z)likvidovani Microsoftom (napriklad cez tlak na Hitachi a Compaq kvoli zamedzeniu predinstalovavat BeOS, pripadne ponukat predinstalovany BeOS v dualboot mode), doslo az k mimosudnemu vyrovnaniu, ale svet nepockal a vyvojari z Be uz pracovali inde.
- Approaching Be: An introduction to programming for the BeOS https://web.archive.org/web/19970218171106/http://www.be.com:80/developers/tutorials/approachingBe.html
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/02/20/be_inc_sues_microsoft/
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/17/a_silicon_valley_funeral/
- Why BeOS Lost http://lowendmac.com/myturn/02/0403.html