[HN Gopher] The Dawn of Haiku OS (2012)
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The Dawn of Haiku OS (2012)
Author : bitigchi
Score : 38 points
Date : 2021-06-24 13:01 UTC (10 hours ago)
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| dang wrote:
| Discussed at the time (of the article):
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| _The Dawn of Haiku OS_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3904972 - April 2012 (110
| comments)
| wodenokoto wrote:
| Would haiku be the best option for the next generation of kodi
| players, instead of things like Linux or Android?
|
| Wasn't beOS great for playing media or has the playing field been
| leveled over the decades?
| paulryanrogers wrote:
| IMO hardware driver support is the key to performance at every
| level, embedded to bigiron. OS architectures are important,
| though most supporting smaller devices are good enough for most
| media needs up to ~2K and 60fps.
| zozbot234 wrote:
| Isn't Linux supposed to be getting PREEMPT_RT ("realtime
| patch") support any day now? That should bring us to full
| feature parity with BeOS/Haiku at least on the kernel side.
| Simulacra wrote:
| Ah the nostalgia. I loved BeOS!
| janandonly wrote:
| I remember fondly opening a whole slew of video's by mistake. I
| expected BeOS to crash, but instead, it played them all at
| once.
|
| I recently bought an Apple MacBook air with a M1 chip and only
| now has my system a similar performance as my Pentium 4 with
| BeOS used to have almost 20 years ago!
| handrous wrote:
| iOS is the only remotely-mainstream GUI OS I know of that
| feels similar to BeOS, in terms of responsiveness to user
| interaction, though I'd say that's less true now than it was
| several versions ago, even on very new devices. 3-6, and the
| hardware those versions ran on at release, seemed like the
| sweet spot for magically-instant responsiveness to input.
|
| Agreed that M1s with macOS have temporarily given something
| _kinda_ resembling that back to the desktop, though I 'm sure
| developers are toiling even now to make sure it feels slow a
| year or two from now (mostly _not_ developers at Apple, to be
| clear).
| Joker_vD wrote:
| I remember a joke from the times of Windows Vista, I believe,
| that after updating to it, you'll need to have at least a
| 2-core processor to be able to watch a video simultaneously.
| Simultaneously _with what_? Simultaneously with Windows! :)
| jbverschoor wrote:
| Yeah it's kind of insane.. but I'm very happy with my snappy
| M1 lappy
| Jtsummers wrote:
| The performance (though limited due to overall software
| availability) of BeOS and QNX circa 2000 were incredibly
| impressive compared to either Windows 2000 or GNU/Linux.
|
| Cleaner designs that just seemed better at actually making
| use of the available hardware, even though it was a single
| core Pentium 3 (or my parents older first gen Pentium).
|
| I often ponder how things would've been different if
| something more like them had taken off and become mainstream.
| slantyyz wrote:
| > I often ponder how things would've been different if
| something more like them had taken off and become
| mainstream.
|
| IIRC, as it relates to BeOS, Apple was going to acquire
| BeOS or NeXT and opted for NeXT.
|
| If Apple had gone with BeOS, the computing world would
| probably be a very different place today, given all the
| great things Apple did after Steve Jobs came back.
|
| An alternate reality where Apple acquires BeOS over NeXT
| does make for an interesting "what if" story though.
| Grazester wrote:
| BeOS was not as stable and complete an OS as NexTSTEP. It
| would have taken longer for Apple to launch their version
| of the OS and Apple was in a hole in the late 90's. As
| you noted there would be no Jobs which came with the OS.
| jbverschoor wrote:
| We would have had someone with hard nipples :-D (JLG)
|
| The BeOS C++ api was nice to work with, and every little
| thing was a thread. I think if it became more mainstream
| we might have had a higher core-count.
|
| I wrote a simple windows implemention of the BApplication
| and BWindow etc. classes, which allowed me to compile to
| two platforms :-) I was very interested in OSes at the
| time, and ran BeOS at my job at DeltaKabel / Lucent
| c01n wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eMGbDJmgv0 you are welcome.
| bebop wrote:
| R1/beta3 just had its first rc cut the other day. Exciting to see
| this operating system continue on towards a first release. The
| risc-v port is gaining decent support as well.
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