Comment Re:For desktop OS, I'd tale BeOS' responsive handl (Score 1) 484
I still have an old ThinkPad with 256MB Ram that I have running on BeOS in a drawer.
BeOS is very responsive because EVERY thing ins threaded and they embraced multi-threading and SMP from day 1. Other OS/s use an event loop in the GUI apps while BeOS does it somewhat different. It encourages threading and not a single loop when you consume an event, process it and then go on to the next one. Events tend to spawn threads that then interact with each other. The single event consumer thing is a very old paradigm in UI design.
Another OS which is very very responsive for the same reason is Photon, the GUI running on QNX.
I miss BeOS, was really a great system.