The article recounts the author's personal experience with the BeBox, a dual-PowerPC workstation running the advanced BeOS in the late 1990s. It highlights the system's innovative features like the BFS filesystem with database-like querying and journaling, which were far ahead of their time. The piece also touches on Be Inc.'s failed negotiations with Apple and the company's eventual pivot away from hardware.
Background
Be Inc. was a technology company founded by former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassée in 1990, which developed the BeOS operating system and BeBox hardware. The company was notably in talks to be acquired by Apple in the mid-1990s before Apple ultimately purchased NeXT instead.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- May 13, 2026 at 09:32 AM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10