Hi Mark, Nachricht vom Samstag, 12. Juli 2003, 21:50:49:
> The argument seems to go that on a DP machine one processor will > handle the GUI/OS/drivers and the second processor will handle the > audio application. However, no one (that I know of anyway) has > really measured this quantitatively and shown it to be true. (It > might be to subjective anyway...) Any thoughts? AFAIK the trick of SMP (Symetric Multi Processing) is that it is symetric, there is no cpu dedicated to some (OS|Driver|Gui|App) Task. If thats wrong, please correct me. > My concern has generally been that every SMP machine I've looked at > (admittedly not that many) seems to be a generation behind in > chipsets and memory technology which goes against the goal. If I > agree to pay more money for a second processor I'd at least like the > rest of the machine to be equivalent technology. I guess thats a question of money. What are you missing on dual-boards? Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
