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BeOS Demo Video

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BeOS Demo Video

A vintage demo video of the BeOS operating system running on mid-90s hardware. It shows media playback and window manipulation staying smooth at the same time.

HN commenters use it to show how responsive BeOS was on very modest hardware compared with Windows and Mac of the era.

3 Hacker News mentions · 2016–2024

Topics

  • Operating systems & kernels
  • History of computing
  • Demoscene & retrocomputing

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