“To this very day, this BeOS demonstration video from Be, Inc. blows my mind,” Thom Holwerda writes for OSNews.
“I’m not entirely sure about the date of the video, but since we’re looking at Pentium IIs and the Intel version of the BeOS, I’m guessing we’re in 1998,” Holwerda writes. “This means that while Windows users were barely getting by with Windows 98, and Mac users did not look at their Macs funny because otherwise Mac OS House Of Cards Edition would come crumbling down, the BeOS was doing the awesome stuff shown in the video.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Thank God that Apple had enough sense at the time to choose NeXT instead or Apple likely wouldn’t be here today.