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by hnlmorg 465 days ago
Lack of SMP was an artificial limitation for the BeOS 5 Personal Edition (I think it was called). The idea being you’d get BeOS for free but you couldn’t use it as a proper multiprocessor workstation without paying for a license.

This was also the same BeOS release that targeted Intel and ran off a virtual disk stored on a Windows FAT32 partition.