Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:40:49 08/14/01
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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. It could work, but it would be very complicated to do. So complicated I don't think anyone would consider doing it when you could run a multiprocessor operating system and avoid all the issues.
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