
BeOS, the Innovative Operating System, on the PIOS ONE
The companies Be Inc. and PIOS Computer AG
work closely together to bring to market a new, modern computer
system.
THE COMPONENTS
The hardware impresses by its clear
modular concept, which improves the performance to new heights
through up-to-date RISC technology. The motherboard contains the base
units of the computer, the three PCI and two ISA slots as well as the
audio part and all I/O. The CPU module is plugged on the motherboard,
which carries besides the CPU chip(s) also the system RAM (in standard DIMM
sockets) and cache RAM (also socketed, optional) as well as the
control circuitry for all this.
The operating system BeOS combines all qualities of modern
software technology:
- Microkernel
- Preemptive Multitasking
- Multithreading
- Symmetrical Multiprocessing
- Object Oriented design
- Virtual Memory
- Memory Protection
- Client-Server Architecture
- Modularity
- POSIX and OpenGL compatibility
- Graphical User Interface
- UNIX-compatible bash Shell
Through all this, it is extremely fast, efficient in memory usage and
harddisk storage, and still extremely compact. So you can start already
with comparably low hardware effort and still exploit the power of a
RISC computer. It's easy to use for the user, and easy to program for
the developer.
The operating system is future-proof, as it's designed after the
most recent findings and designed so modularly that it can be
easily expanded.
BeOS ships standard with a complete development environment,
consisting of the C++ compiler CodeWarrior from
Metrowerks
and complete documentation about the compiler, BeOS, and about further
provided tools.
No RISC, no fun! Says PIOS.
More information available from
Be Inc.
Be Europe
Metrowerks
PIOS ONE Homepage
News Overview
PIOS Computer AG
This page was created on 22.Dec.96, last change on 23.Dec.96.