Why “Beos” is being discussed
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Yes, and it’s been a quarter century or so but this is how I remember BeOS doing it. Every window got a dedicated thread for handling events and GUI updates, and other code woul…
by bunderbunder · Oct 31, 2026
IIRC BeOS gave every window its own thread rather than have one GUI thread per app. So in effect every app was multi-threaded by default.
by mike_hearn · Oct 31, 2026
Haiku is all new source, so they had to figure out how to get the binaries to run. I am not the POSIX expert, but I think it was just an API guarantee not ABI. There were severa…
by diskzero · Oct 31, 2026
I am greatly enjoying the juxtaposition of a comment asserting that obviously BeOS was so far from POSIX that Haiku had to do loads of work to get there and your comment that Be…
by tialaramex · Oct 31, 2026
Correct, yes. You can run BeOS apps on 32-bit gcc2 builds. This is a surprising amount of effort to not break compatibility ;-)
by ErroneousBosh · Oct 31, 2026
> I wish that there was some edict from KDE Project management telling everyone working on the Plasma desktop to spend a week in Haiku or something. The other thing is that it s…
by ErroneousBosh · Oct 31, 2026
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