@xdelusion: Is share your enthusiasm for the BeOS platform. I first saw it when a guy at a an Amiga user group bought BeOS PC in running on a p2-350 with 8 mb video card, with TV, and video capture. I played with it for about half an hour and it blew away anything this side of $6000 for the Amiga could achieve (PAL territory so toaster was irrelevant), for about 1/3 of the price.
At the time I was soldiering on with an A1200 trying to run things like Photogenics and Cinema4D on AGA. It was a toy in comparison. BeOS had 24 bit fast graphics, brilliant multitasking, fast booting, nice icon set for the day as opposed to the 4-color, MWB, newicon dog's breakfast I had, multiple "screens", nice modern consistent GUI. We even got a cheapo PC scanner to work with it. It was funny to see the die-hard Amigans trying to pick faults with it: no Lightwave, no DPaint, only 32 "screens", all thw hile knowing that as an OS it was brilliant.
I had a carzy idea that Be could have simply bought out the Amiga name, stuck one of those "Amiga on a PCI card things" inside for those who wanted it, or provide some built in emulation
