Re: OS? Home, Media or Pro?

[Andreas Wetterberg <awetterberg@post.cybercity.dk>]

Meh. XP Pro came with my laptop, what do I care? ;-)

Best,
Andreas


jeff larson wrote:
>> From: Sean Echevarria
>>
>> The second link makes the distinction between physical 
>> processors and cores with the upshot being that XP home will 
>> make use of both cores.
> 
> Right, the issue for XP Pro is that it supports "Symmetric
> Multiprocessors"
> (SMPs).  This is not the same thing as multiple-cores, though the
> OS may display them the same way in the administration tools.  
> 
> SMPs have been around a long time and are basically special
> motherboards that accept more than one processor chip and sometimes
> duplicate supporting components like cache, memory, and disk
> controllers.  Multiple cores (in home machines) are relatively recent, 
> they effectively duplicate the CPU but share the same cache, memory,
> and other components.  
> 
> SMPs have typically been available only in "server" class machines,
> I have never seen one in a laptop.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
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