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Article: BeOS on the Power Mac. (Be Inc BeOS operating system) (Product Development)(Brief Article)

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November 1, 1996
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The operating system offers preemptive multitasking, protected memory, and true virtual memory. Best of all, it runs on a Power Mac. Has Apple suddenly performed a miracle with an early release of Mac OS 8? No, it's the BeOS from Be Inc. (415/462-4100, http://www.be.com), the company launched in 1990 by former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassee.

At the recent Macworld Expo in Boston, Be demonstrated a version of the BeOS running on a PowerPC-based Macintosh system from Power Computing. The OS was originally developed for the BeBox personal computer, but the company announced last year that it would port the software to other computers.

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