Intended purpose

server/mainframe: Only low end servers can run on this operating system.

desktop/workstation: general desktop and content creation workstations

handheld: not appropriate

real time: not appropriate

Release Date: 1995

• BeOS: October 1995, “Be publicly shows the BeOS for the first time. At that time, Be builds a proprietary hardware called the BeBox (which is a dual PowerPC machine, roughly a boosted PReP machine).”^e79
• Dr6 (developer release): January 1996^e79
• Dr7 (developer release): April 1996^e79
• Dr8 (developer release): September 1996^e79
• Advanced Access Preview Release: May 1997^e79
• PR (preview release): July 1997^e79
• PR2 (preview release): October 1997^e79
• Release 3 for Intel x86: March 1998^e79
• Release 3 for PowerPC: April 1998^e79
• Release 3.1: June 1998^e79
• Release 3.2: July 1998^e79

Hardware Supported: IBM/Motorola PowerPC^w14, Intel/Cyrix/AMD Pentium^w14

Maximum Number of Processors: 8^e82

Kernel: proprietary^e81

    “BeOS’ kernel is ‘prioprietary’. It uses its own kernel (small but not really micro-kernel because it includes the file system and a few other things).” —Hubert Figuière^e81

File Systems Supported:

• preferred file system: befs^e29 “The BeOS filesystem (BFS) is a 64-bit journalled filesystem with support for arbitrary file attributes on any node (ie, you can apply them to directories and symlinks as well as regular files).”^e76
• file systems can read/write/format: befs^e29
• file systems can read/write: HFS^e26, VFAT^e29, FAT^e28
• file systems read only and can write through optional software: ISO 9660^e28
• file systems can read/write through third party or optional software: FAT32^e82, NFS^e29

Disabled support:

Application Programs:

Security:

references within this web site

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•     Ease of Use
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•     Hardware (Physical) Layer of an Operating System

further reading: web sites

Please send recommendations on additional URLs to Milo.

official web sites

    http://www.be.com

FAQs

(Frequently Asked Questions)

user group web sites

other related web sites

    http://www.BeForever.com/ News

    http://www.BeosCentral.com/ News

    http://www.os2ezine.com/v3n13/wright.htm Article: “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing in a Den of Lions, Part 1”

    http://www.planbe.com Links and BeOS Webring

    http://www.mindwork.de Distrubtion of BeOS and Development of BeOSApps

    http://www.BeGeek.com/ News

further reading: books

If you want your book reviewed, please send a copy to: Milo, POB 1361, Tustin, CA 92781, USA.

Price listings are for courtesy purposes only and may be changed by the referenced businesses at any time without notice.

further reading: books: introductory/general

    The BeOs Bible; by Scot Hacker, Chris Herborth, Henry Bortman; Peachpit Press; December 1998; ISBN 0201353776; paperback; 650 pages; $27.99

further reading: books: administration

further reading: books: internet

further reading: books: enterprise/business

further reading: books: content creation

further reading: books: programming

    Be Developer’s Guide (Book 1); by the Be Development Team; O’Reilly & Associates; December 1997; ISBN 1565922875; paperback (with CD-ROM); 950 pages; $39.96

    BeOS: Porting Unix Applications; by Martin C. Brown; Morgan Kaufman Publishers; June 1998; ISBN 1558605320; paperback; 500 pages; $44.95

    Inside the BeOS; Modern File System Design; by Be Inc. Dominique Giampaolo; Morgan Kaufmann Publishers; October 1998; ISBN 1558604979; paperback; 250 pages; $27.96

further reading: books: hardware

further reading: books: miscellaneous

If you want your book reviewed, please send a copy to: Milo, POB 1361, Tustin, CA 92781, USA.