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PIOS Computer AG


PIOS Developer Support Program

PIOS gladly welcomes everybody who wants to develop products for use with the computers shipped by PIOS.

Product Range

As you may know, the actual product line of PIOS uses BeOS and MacOS. The AmigaOS-like pOS by proDAD will be used on the PIOS ONE computer. In a next step, Linux will also be covered in its PPC native form. In later future, we will offer CHRP/PPCP-compliant systems, enabled to run MacOS, Windows NT, AIX, and Solaris.

The main focus of PIOS is on the new BeOS by Be Incorporated. We support Be in various ways. One is to distribute the BeBox including BeOS and the Code Warrior C++ Development Tool by Metrowerks.

A second focus is on pOS by proDAD Software, which serves as a bridge into the AMIGA world.

Freshly announced is an own PowerPC computer system, the PIOS ONE, based on the PowerPC 603 CPU family. This product will be launched to a broad consumer market by March 1997 / CeBIT Hannover. If you add all activities of PIOS (Mac Clones, BeBox and PIOS ONE, all sold by dealers and retail in whole Europe) and Be (BeBOX, BeOS bundles with major hardware companies) together, you can expect some hundred thousand users of BeOS by end of 1997. The same is valid for the impact of proDAD's pOS in the market. All of these users (and certainly the manufacturers) will have a huge demand for all kind of application software. We want to invite you developers to participate in this new era of personal computing. To make it easier for you to develop for the PIOS ONE, we offer you to purchase one of the Null Series devices for a head start!

Developer Support Program

To create applications for the PIOS ONE is a great challenge: You can utilize the functions and benefits of the most State-of-the-Art Operating Systems (and enjoy a new kind of freedom in your programming work), while it is extremely easy to write the applications. Even though it is easy to program, you will have your specific requirements for developer support. Some of the support issues will be served by Be Inc. or proDAD Software, some will be covered by PIOS directly. It will include things like:

and all other things which may help to make pOS- and BeOS-based PowerPCs the most user attractive system of the world.

Developer Support Program Registration


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Developer Support Program Registration

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This page was created 29.Nov.96, last update 23.Dec.96.