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2009-09-18 Haiku Alpha 1 |
 Yesterday evening I drove for 140 km to bring Haiku Alpha 1 to ComPVter, a retrocompunting club in Pavia, and test it on the tons of computers they got. I had only a couple hours, in which I hoped to test at least ten machines, but when they seen how easily I picked up the first machine available - a rusty, dust covered assembled PC sitting in a corner that nobody cared about - and booted it with the Live CD, everybody was so impressed that they started asking me a lot of questions about this operating system they just heard of.Inevitably, my testing evening turned into a little Haiku show: I shown how fast Haiku was even when booting off a CD, multi-video playback (kind of hard reading the videos from a USB 1.1 port), WonderBrush, a tour of the APIs, and all other Haiku goodies. The computer was an Athlon 900 with 512 MB of RAM and everybody agreed that their new notebooks with Vista or Linux feel much less responsive. Haiku probably gained some new users there. |
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