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Re: remember some of the architecture of BeOS?
by Derek Kite on Thursday 24/Feb/2005, @08:24

Think horsepower.

OS/2 had a useful ability in the Workplace Shell where you could have a folder containing documents, and when you opened or closed the folder, the documents would be opened or closed, ie. applications would be started or shutdown.

At the time I was using a 386. I remember buying memory at $100 for a megabyte. This useful feature was useless because it was so slow. Not get a cup of coffee slow, but go eat lunch slow. At least on the machine that I could afford.

This wasn't rocket science. It was a matter of not having adequate resources.

Some kind of desktop data indexing and retrieval is possible because of the enormous power we have in our desktop computers.

Derek

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