it's amusing to see the name of the blog, a popular column in pc magazine in the '90s bore the same name. i forget who wrote it, but it was one of the really well known computer journalists of the time, if i recall correctly.
a notable absence is mention of the cpu utilization lights. to show off all that work they did to build a truly multiprocessor system, they had two strips of leds that ran up the front bezel of the system, indicating realtime utilization of the cpus.
i remember playing with beos many years ago. i think they may have shipped an intel version after shutting down the hardware.
The initial CPU target for BeOS was the AT&T H0BB1T DSP. The alpha copies were called Shark. I actually have system images for the hobbit builds still floating around somewhere. I never did get my hands on a prototype hobbit bebox, sadly. I almost bought one off a guy in France but the deal fell apart.
Be produced a regular PowerPC version that could be installed on Macs (I think it may have required PCI macs?) and then an x86 version that was 32bit only and had a lot of ... quirks. But I used it for over a decade.
Correct, no NuBus support. It also doesn't support New World Macs and some of the later higher-speed 604s. Essentially it's that slice of beige four-digit Power Macs from the mid 1990s.
it's amusing to see the name of the blog, a popular column in pc magazine in the '90s bore the same name. i forget who wrote it, but it was one of the really well known computer journalists of the time, if i recall correctly.
a notable absence is mention of the cpu utilization lights. to show off all that work they did to build a truly multiprocessor system, they had two strips of leds that ran up the front bezel of the system, indicating realtime utilization of the cpus.
i remember playing with beos many years ago. i think they may have shipped an intel version after shutting down the hardware.