[116998] in Cypherpunks
Re: Black Bag Jobs VS Shopping Bag Jobs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (phelix@vallnet.com)
Wed Aug 25 00:13:25 1999
From: phelix@vallnet.com
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 03:55:53 GMT
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On 24 Aug 1999 21:46:44 -0500, Petro <petro@suba.com> wrote:
>>BeOS
>
> Debating on buying a copy. Why should I? What does it do
>better than MacOS OR <x>BSD/Linux/Solaris (which are what the rest of
>my machines run)?
The current BeOS mantra is that it's good at handling multimedia. The big
demo for this is a rotating video cube with a different mpeg video streams
on each side. It's also supposed to have good multiprocessor support.
