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This story reminded me of the "BeBox" [0] PowerPC computer from the 1990's, which had Blinkenlights on its front bezel. (It ran the very cool "BeOS" operating
by LysPJ 2y ago
This story reminded me of the "BeBox" [0] PowerPC computer from the 1990's, which had Blinkenlights on its front bezel.
(It ran the very cool "BeOS" operating system[1], which was eventually ported to Mac, then x86.)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS
- lproven 2y agoAnd a FOSS re-implementation of which is still alive and in active development. The project recently released beta 5 -- it's very nearly ready for version 1.0 and now runs GNOME Epiphany, Firefox, LibreOffice and more. https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/09/testing_haiku_beta_5/ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/09/testing_haiku_beta_5/
- deltarholamda 2y agoThat you felt the need to explain these makes me feel really, really old. (And you did need to explain it; it's practically Elder Lore at this point.) It's like explaining to young people that we used to have to pay per message for SMS, or that only one person could be on the Internet at a time at your house. Now if you'll excuse me, I see some suspicious looking clouds I need to go yell at.
- endemic 2y agoThe BeBox is my holy grail of retrocomputing! Had to settle for a partition on my x86 machine. Loved BeOS back in the day.