It's also a fully journaled OS, which means that you can pull the plug out of the wall at any time and not lose any information. Nor will you have to spend several minutes running checkdisk or rebuilding your desktop next time you boot up. BeOs has an internal 64-bit pipeline, and has been built from the ground up to deliver extremely fast response for file access and for a large variety of multimedia types. I decided to take a different approach, and played 11 MP3 files simultaneously. It was a heck of a sonic mess, but the OS mixed all the output in realtime without flinching.
Every file system saves some sort of information about the attributes of individual files.
Under the BeOS, attributes are enormously customizable, and new types can be created by the user. The OS and your applications can also use attribute information to automate a large number of tasks. The Unix-like kernel is accessible from a powerful command line running bash, a command shell which will instantly be familiar to Linux users. This is great for programmers, since you can immediately start developing for both sets of hardware. BeOS can also mount, read, and write to any FAT16, FAT32, and Mac HFS formatted discs.