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Re: [Sheflug] beos
Craig Andrews wrote:
> On Monday 01 July 2002 14:52, you exclaimed:
> > Oh well, I don't really think BeOS was _that_ good anyway :-)
>
> Yeah. BeOS was great as a technology demo, with it's 3 second boot and
> fantastic software Mpeg playing and 3D stuffs, but sadly that's all it was
> good for. The lack of apps and the state of the browser meant that it wasn't
> even useful as an internet terminal :(
Well, I installed it on my computer not so long ago, to see how it
looked, and I was quite impressed at two things:
-How easy it was to install
-It is quite fast and stable
And you get a nasty port of Mozilla for BeOS. However, on my box
it was so slow, which was as good as nothing...
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