Re: [microsound] Wired News :DJ Turns the Tables on Tradition

[ben phenix <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:Oh and it uses BeOS. has anyone use this OS? just curious. it is supposed
:a more multimedia oriented OS.

i have used beOS almost daily for about three years now.  it was a 
very fine OS, but the fate of it is more uncertain than ever as they 
had to sell.  though the OS still outperforms my other ones, so 
there is no reason to give it up for some time.  they did get bought 
by palm so there is lots of hope, but little certainity.  there was 
some niffy, if a little underdeveloped, software out there.  
however, it never got a foothold big enough to get a lot of other 
business or developers behind it.  MS forbidding hardware vendors 
from offering dualboot machines was a big blow as they several 
major vendors lined up.

beOS position itself as a multimedia OS and does those things 
wonderfully well.  another product beOS powers is the radar hard 
disk multi-tracker (http://www.otari.com/products/RADARII/) which i 
know has received rave reviews but i have never seen one myself.

finalscratch was likely choose beOS for it high i/o performance.  
with my gina card i see about 3ms system latancy.

b.