[Coco] ReactOS...

Michael Robinson deemcr at robinson-west.com
Mon Dec 15 02:46:29 EST 2008


On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 01:34 -0600, Sean wrote:
> I wish BeOS would have made it. That was a neat one 10 years ago.  Ran
> the Intel demo version, never had the money to invest in a BeBox.
> Personally I would have called it the spiritual sucessor to the CoCo.
> (for one, just because not enough people loved it. :)
> It's multitasking could run circles around Windows at the time: 3D
> demos, while playing multiple video and audio files at the same time.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS_R5
> 
> The demo would run well on a Pentium or PII system, with a standard
> VGA card, and sound most likely through older Soundblaster cards.
> http://www.bebits.com/app/2680
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Mike Pepe <lamune at doki-doki.net> wrote:
> >
Well. ReactOS isn't BeOS but if it stabilizes it could potentially
perform better than MS Windows.  I'd just like to see drivewire
server run on it.  The specs for ReactOS are lower than Linux,
which is not saying much considering how unstable it is right 
now.




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