Oooops. In a post yesterday, this po' fella said:

>"There are a mere handful of multi-threaded applications
> (i.e. CAD) capable of using dual Intel cpu's. If you run
> garden-variety PC applications (i.e. Microsofty Word, Excel, etc)
> on, say, a dual 500 mhz system, you can expect to get something
> like the throughput associated with a single 500 mhz cpu system."

It should have been phrased:

"If you run a single garden-variety PC application ..." you utilize
only one cpu.

This is owing to the fact that, if you have a proper SMP OS
and you run multiple applications, you can expect to utilize
both processors as each app. is separately threaded.

Apologies for the misleading wording.

  David

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