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Just a reminder that the Boston Be Users Group will be meeting this
Friday.  Be will be flying two people out to demo the BeBox.

NEWSFLASH:  The demo will be the first public demonstration of
Developer Release 7 of the Be Operating System.

                                 B-Bug
                       The Boston Be Users Group
                            Charter Meeting
                 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
                              Room 6-120
                        Friday, April 12, 1996
                                7:00 PM


  * Mark Gonzales, Be's Director of Developer Relations & Marketing,
    & Dominic Giampaolo, a member of the Be Engineering Team, will
    give a demo of the BeBox in action & answer your questions.
  * Prize drawing for Be T-shirts, 'we BE geeks' pocket protectors,
    & a Be-compatible ethernet card.
  * Presentations of current & forthcoming products & projects by
    Be Developers

For details & to pre-register, see

     http://bug.onthe.net/boston/

or our mirror at

     http://www.mit.edu/activities/sca/bbug/

Please pass this message along to anyone you think might
be interested, and feel free to post it to other newsgroups
and mailing lists.
____________________


About the BeBox and the Be Operating System

The BeBox brings symmetric multiprocessing architecture home --
the first BeBox has two CPUs, and Be has indicated plans to ship
units with up to eight CPUs. For an expected retail price of
$1,600.00, the bare-bones BeBox features:

    2 PowerPC 603 CPUs
    8 Mbytes RAM
    3 PCI slots
    5 ISA slots
    4 drive bays
    SCSI
    IDE
    parallel port
    4 serial ports
    3 infrared ports
    MIDI
    16-bit sound
    2 PC standard joystick ports
    PC standard keyboard port
    PS/2 mouse port
    & for the hardware hacker, Be's custom  37-pin "GeekPort"

Which should be enough I/O for just about anybody....


The BeOS is an inherently parallel operating system that features
a multiprocessor microkernel, pre-emptive multitasking, protected
memory (with the ability to share memory when appropriate),
interapplication messaging, real-time architecture for handling
audio & video, an integrated database built into the filesystem,
virtual memory, dynamically loadable device drivers, and an
integrated windowing environment.  The BeOS includes a command
shell (based on GNU bash) as well as the GUI; many GNU and other
standard tools, including TCP/IP networking tools, have been
ported already, and others are in development.  The BeBox ships
with development tools including a special version of Metrowerks
CodeWarrior.  The BeOS is mostly POSIX compliant, and the BeBox also
runs LINUX; the hardware design is PReP-based and future models
will be CHRP compliant, enabling Be CPUs to run Macintosh and
Windows software once those operating systems migrate to the
PowerPC Platform.
____________________


If you are a developer with a Be product, project, or plan, this
is your chance to present it to other Be geeks.  If you'd like to
make a presentation, please let us know -- see

http://bug.onthe.net/boston/presentationform.html

Full details are on the web page, so I'm not going to take bandwidth
for them here.  If you plan to come to the meeting, *please* take a
minute to go to the web page & register.  If (& only if) you preregister
you will be eligible for the prize drawing, featuring the Be T-shirt,
the (in)famous 'we BE geeks' pocket protector, and a grand prize not
yet selected....

This meeting is free and open to the public .  (There will be a box up
front for donations to defray expenses.)  Places will be held for
people who preregister (up to the room's capacity) until 10 minutes
before the meeting.  Again, full details are at:

http://bug.onthe.net/boston/

Looking forward to seeing you April 12!

--Carl Alexander
Boston Be Users Group
carl@gnu.ai.mit.edu