On 13 May 2002, at 14:58, Brendon Schafer wrote:

> The only advatage I can think of is if you use many apps that are
> multi-threaded (I think is the correct term). Your OS also needs
> to support multi-threading. AFAIK only the Windows NT/2000/XP of
> the M$ variety support multi-threading.

Multithreading - Internal structuring of a single application
"process" as a set of tasks which are each allocated "time slices" by
the OS scheduling algorithm.  All Win32 versions support this -- if
they didn't, many more Win32 binaries would run only on NT/2000/XP
than actually do.

Multiprocessing - Support by the OS task scheduler for multiple CPUs,
including making sure that CPU caches are kept in sync, that a single
thread is not scheduled to more than one CPU at a time, etc.  This is
the feature that 95/98/ME lack.

David Gillett

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