October 1, 1995: BeBox Introduced

by Chris Seibold Oct 01, 2010

Dual Processors, CD quality sound, advanced SCSI buses and host of multimedia enhancements made the hardware specs impressive. More impressive was the OS, which was multi threaded, object oriented and memory protected. Sound like the first OS X powered Mac? Nope, it was the BeBox introduced by Jean-Louis Gassee's new company Be.

The OS had everything Copland had promised, the hardware was priced more than competitively when compared to Apple's offerings of the day and the press was agog. Some wondered if Gassee's long term goal wasn't just to sell the technology to Apple (something that almost happened). Whatever the motivation the BeBox was an impressive machine.

The BeBox never sold particularly well, another proprietary OS wasn't what consumers wanted (they wanted Windows 95) but the machine did show what a nimble well-managed computer company could pull off. The BeBox debuted with a flourish this week in 1995.

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  • Oh yeah, the BeBox. Unfortunately, I just invested a lot of money into a big desktop for OS/2, so I couldn’t afford it. I hate myself for that now, it’s nearly impossible to get such a machine (at least in Europe). I would spend a lot for one.

    hessi had this to say on Oct 01, 2006 Posts: 8
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