The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of BeOS | Tech History

What would happen if an operating system was designed from the ground up for the future, without any legacy code? That’s exactly the question that led Jean-Louis Gassée, former head of product development and marketing at Apple Computer, to leave his high level position and found a new hardware and software company, Be Incorporated. However, you hardly hear of Be or their flagship product BeOS these days. Why is that?

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 The Be-ginning
0:43 Not-so-Humble Be-ginnings
2:48 The Be's Knees
7:44 To Be or Not To Be
9:33 Being on the Pentium
11:37 A New Be-ginning
13:03 Why couldn't it Be?
14:10 Outro

MUSIC:
Virtual (Void) - The Cotton Squares (BeOS Remix)
Weekend in Tattoine - Unicorn Heads
Passport.mid (Roland SC-55)
Man - Rondo Brothers
Encounters - LEMMiNO
Tiptoe Out The Back - Dan Lebowitz
Church of 8 Wheels - Otis McDonald
Horizons - Scott Buckley

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