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In 1996 Apple was searching for a modern replacement for the aging classic Mac OS. One of the most intriguing candidates came from a small company called Be, Inc. Their operating system, BeOS, was built from the ground up for performance, with preemptive multitasking, symmetric multiprocessing, and a strong multimedia architecture. In this episode we explore the origins of BeOS and the unusual hardware it first ran on: the dual-CPU BeBox with its iconic “Blinkenlights” and experimental GeekPort. We look at why BeOS impressed reviewers with its heavily multithreaded design, how it was later ported to PowerPC Macintosh systems, and why Apple ultimately chose NeXTSTEP instead — a decision that would eventually lead to Mac OS X. This is part 1 of the story about the operating system that almost changed Apple’s future. In this episode: 00:00 Intro 00:56 The Birth of BeOS and the BeBox 03:17 BeOS Innovation & The Macintosh Era 05:24 End Of Macintosh Era: Why Apple Didn’t Choose BeOS 08:35 Conclusion 🔔 Subscribe for more retro hardware adventures! Want to join THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS or THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS community and get a mention in an upcoming video? Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR/join This video was made possible with support by: THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS: Alisha Manuela Stutz Christian Zerrahn David Schell Ernesto Leonardo Bertola Waseem al sammane ZyeByteVT THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS: Aaron Balint Szikszay Brian Repinski CaffeinePizza Cecil Cinemint Media Clank CompuDroid GrayT! Ian Cobb ihartmacz Jack Beckman Jack Rosenthal Luke Granger-Brown Matthew Veety Mlok Karel MS-DOS Manfred nadrazhul NoOne PPCEmulator SoftMASCII Steven Glogger Wobinu Films xcalibur839 Z098 Visit also THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR website at https://www.thephintagecollector.ch for insights into my retro computer collection. This presentation, Copyright @ 2025 THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR, Gianpaolo Del Matto. All rights reserved. Individual Copyrights apply for referenced material (see sources). Music composed by 🎶 Abdallah El-Ghannam https://www.youtube.com/@AcrossTheU.S.A | https://www.fiverr.com/abdallahghannam 🎶 rootkitty | https://soundcloud.com/rootkitty ℹ️ Sources: Primary / Technical https://nobius.org/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf https://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/22-media_kit/ https://testou.free.fr/www.beatjapan.org/mirror/www.be.com/products/beos/beos_specifications.html https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/TheMediaKit_Overview_Introduction.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System https://archive.org/details/the_beos_bible BeOS History / Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Inc. https://macfolkloreradio.com/be/ BeBox / Hardware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/BeBox https://web.archive.org/web/20000128072331/http://www-classic.be.com/aboutbe/pressreleases/95-10-03_Intro.html http://testou.free.fr/www.beatjapan.org/mirror/www.be.com/products/bebox/dual603ds.html https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/original-bebox-introduction-at-agenda-96/9512 http://lorezan.free.fr/BeBoxHobbit/ https://www.reddit.com/r/beos/comments/195lk0g/bebox_hobbit_prototypes/ https://www-pat-hi--ho-ne-jp.translate.goog/shibata/indexbe.html?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp Architecture / Platform Context https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Hobbit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_PC Apple OS Strategy Context https://computerhistory.org/blog/next-steve-jobs-dot-com-ipo-that-never-happened/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Amelio https://512pixels.net/2012/03/next-the-apple-purchase/