Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:08:44 04/24/98
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On April 24, 1998 at 14:36:25, Don Dailey wrote: >On April 24, 1998 at 07:28:29, Kevin Mulloy wrote: > >>Gentlmen, >> This is my first trip to this site -- and I like what I've read so >>far! I have a question that one of you might be able to answer for me. >>I have the chance to purchase a dual 333 P2 for a very good price. My >>question is, "Would two 333 P2's give a strength advantage over a single >>processor if I were running one of the top programs on it?" I have most >>of the new programs that are available (my personal favorites are >>Hiarcs6! and Genius 5 -- followed by MCP7 and Fritz 5). I'm not very >>well versed on just how a dual processor set up works. If the resulting >>performance gains would be noticible (even 50 elo points would be an >>amazing gain -- in my opinion) I would be willing to "spring" for the >>extra processor and run some test. Does anyone have an opinion on this >>one? If the extra processor will or will not make a difference, what >>are the reasons? In advance, thanks for the input and help guys! >> Trapper >> trapper@netnitco.net > > >Hi Trapper, > >Most programs will not benefit from more than 1 processor but I predict >it will be fairly common in the next few years. This of course remains >to be seen. But if even one commercial program does it the others will >have to follow. > >But there are other advantages to having 2 processors. You could run >two programs simultaneously and get almost full performance from each >of them. I'm not sure if Windows 95 will know how to use 2 processors. >You should find out first, or just use Windows NT. > >- Don the answer is "no". Win95 does *not* support multiprocessing. But NT works just fine. There's at least one crafty operator on ICC using WinNT with dual PII's and no problems at all. There are several running linux with multiple processors, but so far, only one program I know of is available to take advantage of them...
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