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Subject: Re: More Microsoft annoyances ...

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:36:34 08/14/01

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On August 14, 2001 at 00:42:20, Slater Wold wrote:

>On August 14, 2001 at 00:06:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On August 13, 2001 at 20:41:33, Slater Wold wrote:
>>
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>>>
>>>A step back?  WTF are you talking about?  XP will support SMP just as 95, 98,
>>>and ME do now.  If you want the full SMP effect, you'll have to upgrade, just as
>>>you do now.
>>>
>>
>>
>>There is no "full or partial SMP effect".  It either supports the second
>>processor or it does not.  95 and 98 do not.  I have both.  NT and 2000
>>do support them.  I also have both.  XP I don't know about.  But for
>>heaven's sake, don't say that 95, 98 and ME support SMP.  They most
>>definitely do not.
>
>Uh, that's what I said.  "XP will support SMP just as 95, 98,
>and ME do now."  (That is, NOT AT ALL.)  And that's what the MS clip said.


OK. That is simply _very_ poorly worded.  Better would be "XP will not support
SMP, just as 95, 98 and ME do not."  I don't like things like "I am just as good
a brain surgeon as my brother" when my brother has never seen an operating
room in his life.  :)



>
>
>>
>>
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>>>
>>>Taken from:  http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/guide/featurecomp.asp
>>>
>>>DUALVIEW
>>>DualView allows two monitors to host the Windows desktop, while being driven off
>>>of a single display adapter. In the case of laptop computers this could be the
>>>internal LCD display as well as an external monitor. For desktops there are a
>>>variety of high-end display adapters that will support this functionality.
>>>
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>>>
>>>Once again, what are you talking about?
>>>
>>>
>>>Slate
>>
>>
>>I don't believe that is what he was talking about.  I believe he meant having
>>your desktop split across several monitors at one time.  I have seen 4-headed
>>graphics machines with part of the image on each of 4 different monitors to
>>provide a really _big_ display device.
>>
>>I would assume that video card manufacturers will still be able to provide
>>drivers to do this...
>
>If that is indeed what he meant, then I did take it wrong.  And I apologize.
>From what I understand, everything that 95, 98, or ME can do, XP Home Edition
>will do as well.  And this coming from MS.
>
>Also, like you said, I think splitting a screen into 4 - 8 - 12 monitors is a
>driver and software thing.  I don't really see how MS is going to stop
>manufacturers from doing this.
>
>
>Slate



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