Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:17:34 03/03/00
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On March 03, 2000 at 01:00:42, Vincent Vega wrote: >On March 01, 2000 at 22:17:30, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>I have 9 quad xeons at my office, plus the quad p6. :) Bruce has one. Amir >>uses one. I just taught an undergraduate class in parallel programming, and >>out of 15 students, three had dual-processor machines. You can put together >>a good dual for 500-700 bucks. > >Chess programmers and CS students that take a parallel programming class is a >very skewed sample. The fact is that multiple processor systems are very rare >as home users' desktops. It's hard to expect that to change until Microsoft >puts multi-processor support into their consumer version of Windows (I don't see >Linux making any gigantic gains as a desktop OS in a near future). That is interesting. My neighbor, who runs NT, showed me his new dual celeron box last year. :) I posed the same question to my operating system class last night. out of 30 people, 5 said they had duals at home. they are not very rare any longer...
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