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Re:Haiku Project by lbenes on Friday September 23, 2016 @03:13PM (#12567193)
Haiku is a clone not based on the original BeOS codebase. So while it may run the same apps and look similar, does it have the internal design and optimizations that made the original so capable for its time? Could Haiku running on equivalent hardware run that demo as well as BeOS?
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Re:Haiku Project by PeCaN on Friday September 23, 2016 @08:59PM (#12568946)
Haiku is pretty damn fast. Its kernel (NewOS) was written by one of the BeOS developers and the whole system's architecture is generally pretty similar to BeOS.
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Re:Haiku Project by soapdog on Friday September 23, 2016 @04:51PM (#12567853)
It is even better. It has ABI compatibility with BeOS, it can run x86 BeOS apps (not PPC apps though)
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