March 5, 1999

Operating System Renders Error Messages in Haiku

Finally, a computer operating system an English major can love.

BeOS, an operating system from a company called Be Inc., is aimed at what the company calls "prosumers" -- "users at the heart of multimedia activity." But a user we know says that what he likes are its error messages, rendered in haiku:

Serious error.
The site, vanished into dust.
Screen, mind. Both are

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