BeOS

Introduction
BeOS was originally developed by the company
Be with the former Apple coworker Jean-Louis
Gassee for its own type of computer, the BeBox.
It contains 2 power PC CPUs and was equipped
with maximally with 256 Mbyte of RAM. BeOS is
written from sratch and does not contain
obsolete operating system design concepts.
BeOS basically does not run other applications
that are not developed for this operating system.
 This operating system is only available in English,
French and Japanese languages.
This is the default desktop
that you first see when
booting up BeOS Personal
Edition. Icons and folders
can be placed directly on
the desktop. The bar in the
upper right is the "Deskbar".
Clicking on the BeOS logo
on the Deskbar brings up a
menu with programs you
can run. The Deskbar can
also be dragged to other
corners of the screen or to
the upper or lower of the
screen to give it a "Windows
task bar" appearance.
BeOS includes a basic web
browser application called
Net-Positive.
Some of the default icons
on the desktop were links to
the Be web site.
BeOS offers virtual desktops
called "workspaces". Each
workspace may have its
own background and
screen resolution. It is
possible to configure the
number of available
workspaces.
The BeOS media player can
play a number of different
file formats. One of the
strengths of BeOS is that it
is designed and optimized
to handle multiple media
streams.
BeOS System Environment
 x86 CPUs or PowerPC (up to release
5.03)
needs at least 32MByte RAM
64-Bit operating system
befs 64-Bit JFS file system, R/W HFS,
VFAT, FAT
Symmetrical multi-processing (SMP)
Multi-processor support (up to 16 CPUs)