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An official demo from Be, Inc. showcasing BeOS running multiple media applications and a responsive desktop on 1990s hardware.

Official BeOS Demo Video from Be, Inc.

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What people say. Recommended as a historical demonstration of BeOS's impressive performance and concurrency on 1990s hardware.

beosrockson Hacker News • Recommends

On “The Dawn of Haiku OS”

…on the box. Within 20 seconds or so of restarting, the machine was chugging away with all of its media files in the place they were when they were halted, as if nothing had happened. If you've never played with BeOS on an old Pentium II, it's hard to imagine the kind of performance it was able to squeeze out of that hardware. Here's a rough idea: link to this video…
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On “Lessons Learned from 30 Years of MINIX”

…in the 1990's, right? They were OK for apps but architecturally terrible. That meant they crashed a lot, slogged down under heavy load, and so on. UNIX and Linux didn't do much better outside of SGI's machines. Hell, were barely usable. You'll appreciate what this microkernel-based, concurrency-oriented desktop is doing if you remember those days: link to this video Note: I couldn't even drag videos without them skipping back then. They do that in the demo while other stuff is playing. Too bad Microsoft had a monopoly and Jobs turned them down for Darwin in Next (later became Mac OS X). An early great one that's in all kinds of stuff is QNX microkernel. It did a POSIX-compatible implementation w/ micro…
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agumonkeyon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Experiment in booting Linux fast”

I didn't know about BeOS booting process, but I stumbled upon good old demos1 recently, I remember how I was amazed back in the days. I'm still amazed, more than before. Sad. 1 link to this video
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nickpsecurityon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Unikernels are unfit for production”

Not organized to be able to just throw out a reference and many disappeared over time as old web faded. It's more something you see relative to other OS's than an absolute. I really need to try to integrate all the examples sometime. Here's a few, esp from past, that give you an idea. Historical look at quite a few link Note: A number were concurrency safe, had a nucleus that preserved consistency, or were organized in layers that could be tested independently. UNIX's was actually a watered down MULTIC's & he's harsh on it there. I suggest you google it too. Burrough's B5000 Architecture (1961-) link Note: Written in ALGOL variant, protected stack, bounds checks, type-checked procedure c…
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nickpsecurityon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust”

…o, with VxWorks making more than QNX per quarter. Both have desktops virtualizing Windows, Linux, etc on microkernels w/ Gbps throughput. I don't see why we keep getting these theoretical counters given the proven results of microkernel performance in the field. Tell me why microkernels are too slow when they can only do this on 90's era hardware: link to this video Then, tell us why we should sacrifice isolation of malice and faults in favor of kernel-mode code with properties like this: link Our side produced highly reliable and secure systems plus high-performance systems. It was always done with a small group with little time. The monoliths took a decade and thousands of man hours to do the same.…
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crazylogladon Hacker News • Mentions

On “I wrote a display server, a desktop environment, and a debugging/reversing tool”

Futurama reference ;) link though apparently popular enough that some people have made all-rush playlists ( link ) On-topic - definitely a cool project and one that I haven't heard about actually, added to my queue of weekly source-code readings. I'd also consider DirectFB similar, and another project that I just have in my vaguest of memories (think they used a project-name like Cairo that got google-CVed out of existence from the more recent one) from the 2001-02ish era. They tried to attack X back then, but fell victims to the driver situation (but they had arbitrarily rotated windows!). One of my stronger personal influences is BeOS though - Compare link to this video to link :)
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0xcde4c3dbon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Haiku booting in UEFI mode”

For an illustration of this, see 1. Keep in mind that this was almost 20 years ago, so the hardware he's running is probably something like a dual-socket Pentium Pro or Pentium II platform with a 66 MHz bus and core clock speeds around 10% of what we see on modern processors, and nothing like a modern GPU (I'd guess that the graphics hardware has accelerated blitting and an overlay for the live video input, though; it's unlikely that software is pushing every pixel in that demo). 1 link to this video
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zamalekon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Haiku booting in UEFI mode”

You're missing the point entirely, it could be done in hardware (I'm sure they would be happy with a PR) - but Haiku can do stuff in software that other OSes simply can't; media is just one of the better demos. It follows very strongly from the BeOS demos from the mid 90s1. 1: link to this video
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eb0laon Hacker News • Mentions

On “BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X”

I installed BeOS a long time ago on a PC. It was something ahead of the times. I still remember how incredible it was the rotating cube demo where you coud drag and drop images and videos on the cube faces... it worked without a glitch on my pentium. Just found out the demo video shows the application with a GL wave surface playing a video over it: link to this video
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pcurveon Hacker News • Mentions

On “'Be' is nice, end of story”

New-ish video of actual BeBox running in HD video quality link I didn't know it had functional LED light meter in front of the case. very cool. Obligatory demo from the 90s link to this video
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