BeBox: A Haiku Application Emulating Be Inc.'s Classic BeBox Hardware

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A new project called BeBox has been released on GitHub as an application for the Haiku operating system. It emulates the BeBox, the dual-processor computer originally built by Be Inc. in the 1990s. The source is hosted at github.com/johnrash/bebox. The post gained modest attention on Hacker News, with 9 points and 2 comments at the time of reporting.

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