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BeOS
1995
Be Inc.'s multimedia-focused operating system from the mid-1990s, built for multiprocessing and multithreading on PowerPC and later x86.
Reference & documentation
External technical references for programming BeOS and for writing emulators.
| Resource | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Practical File System Design with the Be File System ↗ | Format | Giampaolo's book: full BFS on-disk format internals |
| Programming the Be Operating System (O'Reilly OpenBook) ↗ | Programming | Full free book on native BeOS app programming |
| The Haiku Book - modern BeOS-compatible API ↗ | Programming | Per-kit API docs including Kernel Kit and POSIX |
| BeOS Pro Edition 5.0.3 (Intel and PPC) ↗ | ROMs | Bootable BeOS R5.0.3 disc images, Intel and PPC |
| BeOS 5 PE Max Edition v2.1 ↗ | ROMs | Enhanced BeOS 5 Personal Edition ISO image |
| The Be Book - BeOS R5 API Reference ↗ | Reference | Canonical BeOS API: kits, classes, methods, drivers |
| OS.h - Haiku/BeOS kernel API header ↗ | Reference | Threads, ports, semaphores, areas: kernel syscall signatures |
| Haiku operating system source tree ↗ | Source | Complete BeOS-compatible OS: kernel, kits, drivers |
| Haiku BFS implementation source ↗ | Source | B+tree, journal, inode, allocator: BFS reference code |