Just spent the last coupla hours backing up the data I want to save from my BeOS partition on the Intel box. It’s a damn shame things didn’t work out for Be ’cause that OS just totally _rocks_. Fast, slick, easy to use. Throws media around like nobody’s business. Backing up/archiving the mail was just a matter of putting the “mail” folder in a zip file. See, instead of being hidden away (read: trapped) in a mail client database, your emails are individual text files in BeOS. Just zip ‘em up and carry ‘em away. Readable on any system.

It was (still is, really) a beautiful OS and now it’s been relegated to the ‘puting backwater to moulder with the Amiga and the Ataris.

Sigh.