Posted by Richard Crowley on 11/11/05 15:12

"Edmund" <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> In message <dl0unv$n4g$1@news01.intel.com>, "Richard Crowley" wrote:
>> "nobody special" wrote ...
>> > They still make BeOS????
>>
>> No, BeOs appears to be an unsupported orphan. Guess it never made
>> the "critical mass" to survive. For that matter "personalStudio", at
>> least
>> the BeOs version, also appears to be an unsupported orphan.
>
> That is right, still the old BeoS verson works a hell of a lot better
> then the later windows version.
>>
>> > What they said: once you have the font, all the modern programs,
>> > from
>> > the free stuff on up, can make drop shadows, outlines, whatever out
>> > of
>> > it. If you're system is more limited, you can often get around this
>> > by
>> > keying one iteration of the type over another, and offsetting them,
>> > like you can do in photoshop.
>
> Yes i can do that, I was hoping for a faster easier way.
>>
>> "Edmumd" doesn't seem to understand the roles of the operating system
>> (BeOS) vs. the layered application(s) (personalStudio). The OS
>> likely
>> plays *no* direct role in your ability to impose text on video.
>>
>> You should be grateful that it continues to work. Hope you have all
>> the backup and re-installation discs since you seem to be running an
>> orphan application on an orphan operating system. :-((
>
> Yes I do have all installation disks her somewhere under a thick layes
> of dust from many years. You know why? Because BeOS doesn't need to be
> installed and formatted every two months or so like windoze.
> Yes it is limited in both software and hardware but it works.

And most amazingly, BeOS runs only on hard drives that
never crash and on computers whose power supplies never
fail. Isn't that remarkable?

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