The BeOS bible
by Scot Hacker, Henry Bortman, Henry Bartman · first published 1999
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In addition to the BeOS Bible, Scot Hacker also created the BeOS Tip Server, which was a great resource at the time. He also wrote a book for O'Reilly on MP3 (MP3: The Definitive Guide) that I found very useful. And he created RipEnc,…
on “Antique BeOS Content by Scot Hacker (2011)” ↗I loved BeOS. I bought and ran versions 4.5 and 5.0 Pro. I also owned a copy of Scot Hacker's BeOS Bible; which I read front to end. I visited the BeNews and BeOS Tips websites almost everyday. As for BeFS itself, it was a pretty awesome FS. I remember I used to use a utility called MP3 Army Knife, which…
on “Practical File System Design: The Be File System (1999) [pdf]” ↗I loved BeOS after a co-worker at one of my first jobs waxed poetic about it. Bought the BeOS Bible and read all about it. Really wish it had been more ready for primetime. As it was, you pretty much needed the BONE extensions to make it useful on the internet. And NetPositive was a minor upgrade over…
on “Interview with Haiku developer Paweł Dziepak” ↗I was heavily in to BeOS. I read Scott's BeOS Bible cover to cover. I had most of the other books (The BeOS API gude, Advanced topics, Programming the BeOS, Practical Filesystem Design) and also had a BeBox (a 66MHz model) and a PowerMac 9500/180MP (Dual…
on “Antique BeOS Content by Scot Hacker (2011)” ↗…else. The quality of the file system and the way its advanced capabilities were fully utilized throughout the OS was also novel. Here is part of an old article written by Scot Hacker, who also wrote the BeOS Bible, which explain some of the advantages: http://www.osnews.com/story/421/_I_MacOSX_Week_I_Tales_of_a_... Much of what the BeOS had going for it is now available in other OSes, in various shapes or forms,…
on “Haiku Project Announces Availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1” ↗I'm sorry but you're just plain wrong. According to the canonical BeOS Bible there is a POSIX layer and some rudimentary kernel support for multiuser permissions, these were never fully implemented nor exposed. (Developed BeOS applications in the late 1990s.) https://www.amazon.com/BeOS-Bible-Scot-Hacker/dp/0201353776
on “BeOS almost made Apple a different company (2015)” ↗…where I remember you from. I discovered BeOS a few months before they folded, and managed to buy 5.0 Pro while it was still being sold by GoBe. I still have my disc and book to this day along with the BeOS Bible and Be Advanced Topics, and I recently acquired an old Dell P-III system which runs it flawlessly (I just need to round up a PATA hard drive as its original drive died a noisy death a few hours after…
on “Haiku booting in UEFI mode” ↗That’s not what I remembered, but upon reflection you’re probably right since lack of multiuser support is difficult to reconcile with a true protected memory model. I’ve still got The BeOS Bible on my bookshelf so I’ll go have a read through the relevant chapters and take a trip down memory lane (ahem) just for nostalgia’s sake.
on “Apple and NeXT announce merger (1996)” ↗…brings back memories and makes me sad at same time it failed to gain ground. I was a BIG BeOS fan. In fact I'd probably be able to dig up from my storage the actual purchased BeOS package and the "The BeOS Bible" book I bought too. It was the "Opera Browser" of operating systems at the time to me. Lightweight, nimble, fast and just completely felt it was well thought out by brilliant engineers that weren't tied…
on “BeOS Demo Video (1998) [video]” ↗…the full OS on its own for free. That's exactly what I did for the first few months I used BeOS back in 2000; I was so taken with the OS I bought the full version and tracked down a hard copy of the BeOS Bible and Be Advanced Topics, both of which are still on my bookshelf. > "I don't recall any licensing requirements pinned to the amount of RAM you had." There were no licensing restrictions that I was aware…
on “Scripting the Haiku GUI with hey” ↗Reading the BeOS Bible talking about that is quite a throwback: > As described elsewhere in this book, BeOS uses multiple processors with incredible efficiency. If you'll be running BeOS most of the time, you'll get more bang…
on “3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)” ↗