Finding Nighthawks: Nearly seventy years after Edward Hopper finished what would become
one of the icons of American art, Jeremiah Moss went
in search of the diner that inspired it.
posted by scody
on Jun 15, 2010 -
21 comments
BeOS has been reborn a number of times, often without significant success but
things are looking up. Starting in 1991 with the production of an all-in-one hardware/software home multimedia computer (the
BeBox, the first of which was
available to the public in 1994), the possible purchase by Apple was at the height of success for BeOS (instead Apple
chose to buy NeXT in 1996), and the low point of being when BeOS was
bought by Palm for $11 million in 2001, where it became part of the
Palm OS Cobalt that nobody wanted. In 2002,
news of BeOS' rebirth as yellowTAB came out, with another shift as yellowTAB became
magnussoft ZETA, which finally folded in 2007, as
their figures were far below expectations. From here, fans and enthusiasts took over, with a number of attempts to re-create BeOS from scratch. Most failed, but
Haiku (
previously) has survived, and today they announced that the
first alpha version of the Haiku operating system is
available for download (direct download or through torrent), and
a preliminary review sounds positive.
[more inside]
posted by filthy light thief
on Sep 14, 2009 -
59 comments
