First post, by twiz11
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It is based on BeOS, a spitting image of the Classic PowerPC Mac.
Reply 1 of 5, by LSS10999
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twiz11 wrote on 2022-07-11, 00:44:It is based on BeOS, a spitting image of the Classic PowerPC Mac.
Could you elaborate? I don't think BeOS/Haiku had any binary compatibility with classic Mac. For emulating classic Mac there are already Basilisk II and Sheepshaver which are still being developed.
EDIT: Apparently there are works being done in QEMU that could hopefully emulate and run all PPC MacOS versions (up to OSX 10.5).
Reply 2 of 5, by lolo799
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BeOS ran on 603/604PPC based PCI PowerMacs natively and SheepShaver was released on BeOS first but that doesn't explain much about the meaning of twiz11's statement...
Reply 3 of 5, by davidrg
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I guess the Haiku UI does feel kind of classic-mac-like in some ways. But of course at the API, ABI and overall architecture and design level its about as different from Classic MacOS as Windows NT is.
Reply 4 of 5, by Sphere478
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At one point I believe beos was supposed to become mac os or a version of it but it ended up being abandoned.
Reply 5 of 5, by Jo22
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https://hackaday.com/2020/01/09/beos-the-alte … erses-mac-os-x/
Is it just me or did the Red&Blue BeBox look a little bit like a Power Mac G3 Blue/White? 😉
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