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The Dawn of Haiku - How a volunteer crew brought a crack OS back.
- Source :
- IEEE Spectrum; May2012, Vol. 49 Issue 5, p40-54, 0p
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- It was the summer of 2001, and computer programmer Michael Phipps had a problem: His favorite operating system, BeOS, was about to go extinct. Having an emotional attachment to a piece of software may strike you as odd, but to Phipps and many others (including me), BeOS deserved it. It ran amazingly fast on the hardware of its day; it had a clean, intuitive user interface; and it offered a rich, fun, and modern programming environment. In short, we found it vastly superior to every other computer operating system available. But the company that had created BeOS couldn't cut it in the marketplace, and its assets, including BeOS, were being sold to a competitor. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- COMPUTER operating systems
OPEN source software
USER interfaces
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00189235
- Volume :
- 49
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- IEEE Spectrum
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 97987549
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2012.6189574