From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 11:29:15 +0800
To: Warren <wxfield@shore.net>
Subject: Re: PBS show
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On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Warren wrote:

> films...there's a hack. ;)
> 
> BTW-If you are still 'caught up' in the innovative 'demo or die' theme the
> show portrays check out the following site (http://www.be.com/) - I'm sure
> many of you have already been there? Are there any "Be" developers here?
> What are your thoughts?

I've got one - though I haven't had much of a chance to play with it so 
far (Be is in the same building as EIT, and I kept running into jlg in 
the lift :-)

They are pretty cool machines - the back panel is the ultimate in geek 
cool (there about as many ports and sockets as a sparc center 1000). The 
software is pretty alpha (they make no bones about that), and I have some 
reservations about their decision to use C++ as the API to just about all 
of the OS (things get pretty fragile when upgrading), but it's still a 
really cool box, and even if BeOS never pans out completely, you can 
still run Linux on it.

If you're in Menlo Park, definitely get a DEMO, it's the coolest new 
machine on the block. 

Simon
p.s
  does anywhere sell reasonably priced replicas of classic crypto 
hardware?