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Re: 6 months!
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 18 Dec 1998 17:05:48 GMT
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cjc@newsguy!spamcake!.com
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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote:
> Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote:
> > Me too, but I just installed BeOS Release 4 and it is way too cool to
> > not lose sleep over. :)
>
> ooh, now that's back to fun. I'm still waiting for BeOS to have all the
> right support needed to run on my Libretto....
> I've seen release 3 -- how different is 4?
Well, I don't have much to compare it with. I had 3.2 on a Mac here
in the office until today, but only for a week or so. I know they
must have improved video support for this 8600, though, because now I
can run at 1024x768x8x75 whereas before I had to run at 800x600 - ick.
Never saw it on an Intel box before, but it is amazingly fast on my
450. That's compared to this 8600/200, though, and there is really no
comparison between those machines.
To be honest I didn't play with 3.2 enough to see much.
I do know the dial-up networking setup was a breeze. Literally 5
minutes after booting BeOS 4 for the first time I was on the net.
Even though it didn't have built-in drivers for my 3com Impact IQ ISDN
TA. When I selected Generic ISDN TA I doubted it would work, but it
did.
I'm not overly fond of their built-in web browser, but it gets the job
done, and who knows, maybe AOL will make a version of Netscape for it.
It has support for my Marvel G200 card out of the box, which is
awesome. I'm hoping that since Be pitches their OS as a multimedia OS
they will also have tools that will let me use the video capture and
tv tuner capabilities of my card.
Didn't get a lot of time to play with it, but I did run that little 3d
cube thing. Dropped 6 movies on it, one to a side, and it rotated and
played the movies without pause on all sides. Pretty impressive.
The special addition of Partition Magic that comes on the CD worked
like a charm. I'm a long-time PM fan, but this works easy enough for
a novice to use.
More to come...
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| (...) ooh, now that's back to fun. I'm still waiting for BeOS to have all the right support needed to run on my Libretto.... I've seen release 3 -- how different is 4? (26 years ago, 18-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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