Author: Slater Wold
Date: 05:47:56 08/14/01
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On August 14, 2001 at 07:26:22, Adam Oellermann wrote: >On August 14, 2001 at 04:11:58, Jeremiah Penery wrote: > >>On August 14, 2001 at 00:44:43, Slater Wold wrote: >> >>>Oh, and like the MS clip said, there are programs that when run under Windows 98 >>>or ME will USE a 2nd CPU. But they are not going through the OS. CAD and even >>>the deep programs will use a 2nd CPU under Windows 98 and ME. >> >>This is wrong. Win9x/Me do not even acknowledge that a second processor exists. >> Since in this case the program can't know more than the OS, it is impossible >>that a program can use both CPUs under such an operating system. Really, it >>just does not work. > >Before I start, I don't know either way, having never tried an SMP box on a >silly operating system. However, the notion that software is limited to what is >exposed by the OS is surely incorrect. It seems to me that low-level software >can choose to use OS services or bypass them. Slater may be talking about >software simply bypassing OS services in this instance. It may not be easy, but >it should surely be *possible*. > >- Adam Let me repeat what I posted from MS's website: Note that some third-party programs may make use of a second processor under Windows in a programmatic manner (most notably, computer-aided design [CAD] programs). The use of a secondary processor is dependent upon such a program and is usable only by that program. It _IS_ possible. Slate
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