XP on a Dual Core Machine
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Yes, 2 CPU sockets. Unlimited cores. Currently say with AMD Opterons you can get 2 cores per CPU - so XP can run what is effectivey a 4 way machine - 4 full threads, not those hald arsed hyper threading things that more often that not actually slow a machine down. Next year Intel and AMD come out with Quad core CPU's. XP is fine with them too. So next year you effectively will be able to see 8 processors in the task manager, on a dual socket quad core box. -- modified at 13:38 Wednesday 19th April, 2006 XP-64 also optimises for AMD's Opteron NUMA memory arcitecture fully - adding extra optimisation for where the banks of memory are relative to the CPU, and where the thread/process running has most of its data stored. Superb for things like databases, but still very useful for everything else.
What you say is music to my ears if it's true. But I have to admit I'm having a hard time believing that MS would allow you such a benefit without forcing you to buy their server OS. Do you have a link that talks about this? ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸
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What you say is music to my ears if it's true. But I have to admit I'm having a hard time believing that MS would allow you such a benefit without forcing you to buy their server OS. Do you have a link that talks about this? ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸
Its true. We do it at work. http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/highlights/multicore.mspx[^] Not everyone is so nice. e.g. Oracle. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24629[^] All MS OS's and servers are licenced on a per socket basis, and not per core. Giles
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