this was nicely written.

it's amusing to see the name of the blog, a popular column in pc magazine in the '90s bore the same name. i forget who wrote it, but it was one of the really well known computer journalists of the time, if i recall correctly.

a notable absence is mention of the cpu utilization lights. to show off all that work they did to build a truly multiprocessor system, they had two strips of leds that ran up the front bezel of the system, indicating realtime utilization of the cpus.

i remember playing with beos many years ago. i think they may have shipped an intel version after shutting down the hardware.