SystemStatus v1.00
(C)opyright 1998 by ID-Software
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SystemStatus is a small utility showing
information about your system (memory,
kernel, CPU). It also displays all your
running teams with theirs threads, ports,
semaphores, areas and images.

This utility is our first program for
the BeOS. We wanted to try how the
program design for BeOS works. The
expirences from this program are:
- The BeOS class library is very easy
  to use. If you start programming for
  Windows or OS/2 it takes you a long time
  to understand the class libraries.
- The documentation in the "Be Developers
  Guide" is good and complete.
  At the first look I though: "Is this all
  you can do with for example windows?". At
  a closer look I recognized that programming
  can be very easy and straightforward with
  a good class library and documentation.
- Thread programming is very easy. For this
  program I`m using a sepearte thread to
  build the "team list". If you carefully
  read the documentation and newsletters
  you will not have any problems using threads.
- The "Message" concept is very good. 
  Especially for the GUI rescources messages
  are very useful.
- BUT: What Im really missing is a source-
  level debugger for BeOS Intel!

Gerald Hartmann

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions
you can contact me at
g.hartmann@id-software.co.at or
office@id-software.co.at

