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BeOS Demo Video

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Operating systems & kernelsHistory of computingDemoscene & retrocomputing

What it is

A vintage demo video of the BeOS operating system running on mid-90s hardware. It shows media playback and window manipulation staying smooth at the same time.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters use it to show how responsive BeOS was on very modest hardware compared with Windows and Mac of the era.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Here they play an mp3 and a video that continue to render while you move the windows around, on a 133mhz machine”

    Shows BeOS smoothness on 133MHz hardware.

    donatj, 2021-08 · Recommendation · in “Haiku has hired an existing contributor to work on Haiku full-time”

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Topics: beos, vintage computing, multimedia, responsiveness, haiku

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