[opendtv] Re: Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips

  • From: Bob Miller <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:36:19 -0400

BeOs was first demonstrated in New York at my office on 44th and 6th 
Ave. to a crowd that went out into the hall. Jammed was not the word for 
it. Later that evening they had a demonstration at NYU. Still have my 
black "BE" T-shirt though it is badly faded. Before that I was an Amiga 
fanatic, (still have three machines), Betamax (still have a 1984 Sanyo 
official Betamax machine of the LA Olympics), ADSL DMT Modulation (still 
have DMT "modems"--forerunner to COFDM).

Jean-Louis was a former Apple exec who correctly saw that the Amiga was a 
superior machine.

And BeOs is not dead. It is being reincarnated as Zeta OS in Germany where just 
maybe in a continent that has shown a little courage in dealing with Microsoft 
it might do something. Could be good for any media centric use. Microsoft may 
not be able to squash this venture in Europe and especially if it travels to 
China.

http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/03/17/177217&from=rss
http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=223&slide=5
http://www.yellowtab.com/news/article.php?id=121

Bob Miller


John Shutt wrote:

>I never heard of Jean-Louis before so I googled him.  Here is a 1996 Wired! 
>magazine story about Gassee.
>
><http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.05/gassee.html?topic=&topic_set=>
>
>The story is mostly about Gassee's launch of his BeBox computer. My favorite 
>quote:
>
>"Many things we've done in our company we are doing by studying Amiga," he 
>adds. "That company sold 4 1/2 million units and at one point had $800 
>million in annual revenues." Gassée goes so far as to say his product is a 
>"spiritual descendant" of Amiga.
>
>Apparently he succeeded in emulating Amiga.
>
>John
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Bob Miller" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>  
>
>>DITTO!!
>>
>>John Golitsis wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Indeed!
>>>
>>>On 10-Jun-05, at 2:29 PM, John Willkie wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Think of the alternative.  If apple had taken on the Jean-Louis Gasse
>>>>project the many times they rejected it over the last decade, they
>>>>could now
>>>>be ahead of this curve.
>>>>        
>>>>
>
>  
>

 
 
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