Be exits the hardware business

Be, which recently lost a bid to engineer the next Mac OS, announced today that they are exiting the hardware business to focus on developing their own operating system, called BeOS. Currently, BeOS runs on a proprietary two-processor system called

Paul Thurrott

January 30, 1997

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Be, which recently lost a bid to engineer the next Mac OS, announced today that they are exiting the hardware business to focus on developing their own operating system, called BeOS. Currently, BeOS runs on a proprietary two-processor system called the BeBox, and on Macintosh computers. Be is expected to port the OS to Intel machines as well

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Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is senior technical analyst for Windows IT Pro. He writes the SuperSite for Windows, a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE, and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE.

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