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by stiGGG 2358 days ago
Some trivia: There was an unofficial successor of BeOS called ZETA from a german company yellowTAB (later magnussoft). I remember this because they tried selling it via a homeshopping channel in german TV which was completely hilarious.

I found a (very bad) recording of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQW-q2vp6W4

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For some weird reason I still have two (?) copies of yellowTAB Zeta on my bookshelf, next to my boxed copy of Red Hat Linux 7.3. Amazingly Zeta got more use than Linux, because it was much easier to get everything working on my machine.

I just checked the discs and it's the same "Deluxe Edition RC2" as in that home shopping video. I think my copies were bought as special advance preview builds for third-party Zeta developers, though. And I don't think I paid as much as 100EUR...