The Hitachi Flora Prius was a range of

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s marketed in Japan by

Hitachi, Ltd. () is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It is the parent company of the Hitachi Group (''Hitachi Gurūpu'') and had formed part of the Nissan ''zaibatsu'' and later DKB Group and Fuyo ...

during the late 1990s. The Flora Prius was preinstalled with both Microsoft

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as well as

BeOS BeOS is an operating system for personal computers first developed by Be Inc. in 1990. It was first written to run on BeBox hardware. BeOS was positioned as a multimedia platform that could be used by a substantial population of desktop users a ...

. It did not, however, have a

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option as Microsoft reminded Hitachi of the terms of the Windows OEM license. In effect, two thirds of the

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was hidden from the end-user, and a series of complicated manipulations was necessary to activate the BeOS partition.Launching the BeOS on Hitachi FLORA Prius systems, The BeOS Tip Server
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Models

FLORA Prius 330J came in three models: * 330N40JB: Base version with no LCD Screen * 3304ST40JB: Included a 14.1-inch super TFT color LCD Display * 3304ST40JBT: Included a 14.1-inch super TFT color LCD Display and WinTV Video capture board

Base specifications

* CPU: Pentium II processor (400 MHz) * RAM: 64 MB SDRAM * Hard Drive: 6.4 GB (2 GB for Windows 98 and 4.6 GB for BeOS) * CD-ROM Drive: 24X speed max. * 100BASE-TX/10BASE-10

References

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