so i know i have a post like right below this... but i have this other burning question... i heard you can connect multiple processors. but how exactly are they connected? parallel port? isn't that too slow. oi! i sure can confuse myself.

you can't exactly. A motherboard is built by design to handle one or many CPU's. A CPU being a central processing unit, the computers processing unit. There are ways to connect many computers but it is special software usually where one or a few computers sends a portion of the workload off to a computer that has a low/no workload. BeOS is plenty fast enough on modern computers for most applications without distrubuted processing.

I use an Abit BP6 with dual 450mhz cellerons with BeOS and no other OS installed. Beos can use smp ( simetric Multiple Processing ) with up to eight processors at once. A dual is fast enough for me. With the fine-grained threading of BeOS, almost all apps will split up and run on both processors at once. This makes a very responsive system. bbjimmy