The Wizards of Be, Inc. (1997)
Another new computing platform? Crazy Apple refugees up to no good
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Show Notes
Original text by Dave Mark, MacTech, January 1997.
Bryan Cantrill on interviewing at Be, Inc. (perhaps with Dominic Giampolo?) and inadvertently buying a VFS architecture at the Be bankruptcy auction.
Apple wouldn’t have gone OS shopping if Copland had worked out.
CodeWarrior for BeOS was a thing.
Naturally, IBM made the most use of their System Object Model.
Menu Tasking Enabler for MacOS might have been preserved on MacFormat cover disc #4.
BeOS, it’s The OS (5038). (Try it in a mirror.) Also from the Cotton Squares: Standing in the Death Car.
Ivan Richwalski walks you through the BeBox, a few funny BeOS APIs, and BFS metadata indexing and queries.