Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:18:08 03/03/00
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On March 03, 2000 at 07:34:28, Graham Laight wrote: >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). > >Good points. Does Windows 2K have multiprocessor support? > >-g Not that I know of at present. But since it is replacing NT 4, I assume it will.
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