Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 08:09:22 09/15/99
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I'm pretty sure the betas of Win2k will do SMP. You may have to buy a special version of "Windows 2000 Professional" to do this later, though. And regular "Windows 2000" may not do it at all. -Tom On September 14, 1999 at 21:57:09, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On September 14, 1999 at 19:09:28, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>No, that was MS's goal, but Windows 2000 sucks down too much memory/speed to be >>used on "civilian" computers. I think the official deal is that Windows NT 5 >>(formerly Windows 2000) will be called Windows 2000 Professional, which implies >>to me that the next version of consumer windows will be called Windows 2000, but >>will be basically the same as Windows 98. >> >>NOTE: I don't speak for Microsoft, and everything I've written can be found in >>magazines. >> >>-Tom >> >>On September 14, 1999 at 12:11:04, Zachariah Amela wrote: >> >>>>Windows 2000 ought to do this since it is based on NT. >>> >>>Everyone tells me it does. I didn't think it would be primarily targeted to the >>>home user right now. > > >We have a few running 2000 beta, both flavors, and they both look like NT to >my eye.. ie from ntfs, thru security issues, etc... Not like win98 so far as >I can tell. I'll see if I can find a beta user with a dual to see if the >non-server version recognizes dual cpus... I don't remember the two names they >are using, whether enterprise and workstation or server and workstation or >whatever the devil they chose to call the thing... > >But the main thing we were looking at is the security as we run NT everywhere, >NT server on the various servers we have, and NT workstation on the user >machines... And 2000 seems compatible everywhere my 'testers' have looked. > >I haven't followed this from 2 inches away however, since I have my hands full >with our 100+ unix machines...
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