BeOS is a discontinued personal computer operating system developed by Be Inc., a company founded by former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassee, and conceived for Be's own BeBox hardware released in 1995. Built from scratch around multithreading, symmetric multiprocessing and multimedia performance rather than compatibility with an existing system, BeOS was seriously considered by Apple as the basis for a next-generation Mac OS in 1996 before Apple chose NeXTSTEP instead. It never achieved significant market share and Be Inc. was later acquired by Palm. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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SignificanceAn operating system built for multitasking and multimedia performance that Apple seriously considered as the basis of a next-generation Mac OS. 1 Connections
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BeOS is a discontinued operating system for personal computers that was developed by Be Inc. It was conceived for the company's BeBox personal computer which was released in 1995.
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BeOS is a discontinued personal computer operating system developed by Be Inc., a company founded by former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassee, and conceived for Be's own BeBox hardware released in 1995.
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