- DVD-ROM: 934 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1565922875
- ISBN-13: 978-1565922877
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 17.3 x 4.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,677,190 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good API reference, but NOT FOR INTEL USERS., Oct 9 1998
By nathanc@metainfo.com - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Be Developer's Guide (DVD-ROM)
BeOS is a wonderful new OS alternative from Be, Inc. This book will help programmers and developers in their pursuit of extending the functionality of the BeOS.This book is full of descriptive and helpful API reference material and descriptions of the BeOS. It is NOT a BeOS user manual.
BUT. Be careful of the CD. IT WILL NOT RUN ON INTEL MACHINES, contrary to O'Reilly summary on the back cover. It only runs on the PowerPC. If you're interested in a working copy of the BeOS, buy this book, but also visit Be, Inc. online for an updated version of the OS.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good guide to a great but obsolete OS, April 9 2003
By Sean Quinn "dementia13" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Be Developer's Guide (DVD-ROM)
This is the guide to the API of the Be Operating System. It was a great OS with a great API, but it has been abandoned for several years. Worse yet, this is the API for release 3 of the BeOS, and it was up to v.5.1 at the time that Be Inc. went under. If you're already running v.3 or have an old computer you'd like to try it on and want to program in it, then this book is for you. Hardware support was pretty bad even at the time, so it's a very limited range of machines that could run it (nothing modern, except possibly some kind of Athlon with an nVidia video card. If you're learning to program, there's nothing in here for the beginning developer. So, the low rating is not for the quality of this book, but for its usefulness which has passed. BeOS had the potential to be a really great operating system, but Be had staked their entire future on being the next Mac OS. When that didn't happen, be was unable to find its niche in the marketplace. Now, Mac OS X is the closest thing to what BeOS was trying for. It's not as fast as BeOS, but it 's terrific for programming, with great capabilities and real third-party support.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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BEGINNER? LOVE BE?, Jan 11 2000
By PowerManG4 - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Be Developer's Guide (DVD-ROM)
If you are a beginner programmer and you love the Be, this is the book for you. Very helpful for those new to programming. As with most O'Reilly books this is a hit.
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