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



that would make some sense.  i saw the beta version some two years 
ago and it didn't seem that far from release.  porting it would 
account for the delay in shipping (i thought the company had gone 
under for while.)

b.


On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, nhoJ <-> John wrote:

:I believe that FinalScratch started on BeOS, but the dev team ported it to
:something else ~ summer of last year which is why it has been in development
:for so long?
:
:John
:
:----- Original Message -----
:From: "ben phenix" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
:To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
:Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 11:19 AM
:Subject: Re: [microsound] Wired News :DJ Turns the Tables on Tradition
:
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:>
:> :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.
:>
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