After 6 months of being exiled to single processor slot1 land (stupid accident with a screwdriver while installing a heatsink), the VP6 I picked up on eBay arrived today and I’m back in BeOS heaven. The repution of BeOS’ SMP capabilities has become almost mythical online, but the difference on multiprocessor machines really is noticeable. It’s not so much that the system runs “faster” per se, it just becomes more or less impossible to make it run slowly. And it brings a warm glow of BeOS user pride to my heart to see a BeOS machine with two 1Ghz P3s give my Windows machine (an AthlonXP 2800) a run for its money in many tasks, like video encoding.

I apologize for the digression into vanity-blogging, it’s just damn nice to once again be using a machine worthy of running BeOS.

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