by Howard Baldwin

RUNS BEOS ON INTEL AS NEW APPS ARE UNVEILED

from the November 1997 issue of MacWorld magazine

As Apple celebrates strong sales of Mac OS 8, Be (650/462-4100, www.be.com), developer of one of the oter operating systems for PowerPC CPUs, continues to bop along with new releases of its software.

In July, the company shipped its BeOS Preview Release for PowerPC, followed by an update that adds AppleTalk printing and improves video drivers and IDE support. Hedging its processor bets, Be also demonstrated its BeOS running on a dual-Pentium II PC at an August developer conference held on the eve of Macworld Expo in Boston.

by Henry Bortman and Jeff Pittelkau

from the February 1997 issue of Australian MacUser magazine

The Mac commnunity has been electrified by the announce1nent that Apple’s next OS will be based on NeXTstep technologies. But, if this hybrid OS does not meet our expectations, Power Mac users will soon be able to use a third-party alternative: a strategy we dub ‘Plan Be .’

Apple has its work cut out for itself. After slip­ping the schedule on Copland, its much bally-hooed next-generation operating system (OS), by nearly two years, the company has now cancelled the project entirely and announced an alternative strategy that involves the use of NeXTstep technolo­gies. The hybrid OS sounds good, but it will not ship until 1998.