Unfortunately, BeOS PE and BeIA proved to be too little too late, and in 2001 Be's intellectual property was sold to Palm, Inc. also released a stripped-down version of BeOS for Internet Appliances ( BeIA). BeOS PE could be started from within Microsoft Windows or Linux, and was intended to nurture consumer interest in its product and give developers something they could tinker in.īe Inc. released a stripped-down, but free, copy of BeOS R5 known as BeOS Personal Edition (BeOS PE). As a last-ditch effort to increase interest in the failing operating system, Be Inc. Through the late 90s, BeOS managed to create a niche of hardcore followers, but the company failed to become solvent. To further complicate matters for Be, Apple refused to disclose architectual information about its G3 line of computers – information critical to making BeOS work on the latest hardware from Apple.ĭue to Apple's aggressive moves and the mounting debt of Be Inc, BeOS was soon ported to the X86 platform with its R3 release.
However, instead of BeOS, Apple's board of directors decided NeXTSTEP was a better choice and purchased NeXT in 1996, which also brought Apple co-founder Steve Jobs back into the fold. Initially designed to run on custom BeBox hardware BeOS was later extended to run on PowerPC-based processors with the hope that Apple Computer would purchase or license BeOS as a replacement for its then aging Mac OS. It has POSIX compatibility and access to a command line interface through the Bash shell.
The interface API was written in C++ for ease-of-programming. The BeOS GUI was developed on the principles of clarity and a clean, uncluttered design. Optimized for digital media work, BeOS makes full use of multiprocessor systems by utilizing modular I/O bandwidth, pervasive multithreading, preemptive multitasking and a custom 64-bit journaled file system known as BFS.
Unlike other operating systems of the time, BeOS was written from the ground up to be a GUI-based operating system. The Be Operating System, commonly refered to as BeOS, was first written in 1991 to run on BeBox hardware.
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