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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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