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A quick look back at BeOS, the PC operating system that tried to challenge Windows and Mac (www.neowin.net)
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[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Not only could it do full motion video, but it could, on a 200Mhz Pentium MMX CPU, rotate an OpenGL cube on any axis with a different video running on all six sides, and do so smoothly and without any lag or video stuttering. It was incredible what they were able to do back then. Hell I'm not entirely convinced Windows could pull that off now!