On Tuesday 15 February 2005 06:57, Hugh Dixon wrote: > Just a remark for others to comment on. My understanding (very > preliminary) is that the Intel Hyper Threading technology (Pentium 4 3.2 > GHz for example) uses the SMP kernel. The Hyper Threading Technology > (copyright etc?) makes the processor look like two processors. I use one > of these at work under a usoft operating system. The lads from Redmond > make the processor appear to be two in all the reporting and diagnostic > tools. I think Mandrake (Linux?) does the same. (In mcc go to "hardware" > and open the "processors" tree. The HT processor shows as 2 processors.)
I had considered something like that but for the record, my Dell is a Pentium 4 M, 1.8Ghz, so I think that doesn't include the HT technology. Still, never seemed to do any harm. -- Bryan Phinney
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