After the Apple deal collapsed, Be had to reinvent itself.
BeOS 5 seemed to get a lot right — the Personal Edition spread everywhere, even booting straight from DOS. Time to step into the x86 PC era.
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In 1996, Apple almost replaced the Mac OS with BeOS, an operating system optimized for multimedia and multiprocessing, that also ran on Macs. Apple chose NeXT instead… and history went another way. #Marchintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputing https://youtu.be/jWivem85FnE

Join me into a #MARCHintosh parallel universe to explore alternative Mac operating systems: What if your 1999 iBook G3 didn’t run Mac OS at all? Today: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 - once even officially sold on Apple hardware.
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MorphOS is an AmigaOS-like operating system, yet it runs like a charm on vintage PowerPC Macs. Booting it on my Mac mini G4 feels like stepping into an alternate universe: 12 seconds from chime to desktop, and suddenly this old Apple hardware lives in a completely different world. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing https://youtu.be/CZtQFvNGjPA

Apple once built a 1U rack server with dual G4 CPUs, hot-swap ATA drives, and Mac OS X Server 10.2. The Xserve feels like a forgotten detour into the data center world - elegant, ambitious, and short-lived.
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Yup, the Xserve G4 passed the hardware test.
Video coming tomorrow! #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

I‘m really surprised to see twenty-something-years-old Toast silently accepting my modern USB 2 burner to write a coaster on Mac OS X 10.2! #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

Steve Jobs said 10.0 was for early adopters, but Mac OS X 10.1 was the release for everyone — and many apps required it as a minimum. Back then, Mac OS X 10.1 “Puma” made things click and soon shipped by default. Today, reaching 10.1.5 means hunting down lost KB articles and patch files. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing https://youtu.be/NniDDkiGT-I

Mac OS X 10.0 wasn’t just a new OS - it was Apple’s umpteenth attempt at moving the Mac toward UNIX. A/UX, MAE, AIX servers, Rhapsody… This time, Carbon, Classic, and Aqua finally made it feel viable. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing https://youtu.be/YDcE5-d95dU