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Non-Tech : S&P Comstock or PC Quote and Townsend Analytics Users
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To: Nazbuster who wrote (371)11/25/1998 11:15:00 AM
From: Jon Tara  Read Replies (1) of 417
 
Daniel: any software that makes use of threads will benefit from multiple processors under NT. (Doesn't have to be 5.0 - 4.0 is fine.)

There are some programming issues in that some improperly-written software can fail if run on a multiple-processor machine, and for that reason, programs can be flagged to run on a single processor only. But the default is to run on multiple processors.

Presumably, RealTick III uses threading, but I don't think it uses it heavily. I'm sure other heavy users are more than familiar with RT-3 locking-up the system when displaying tick charts on heavily-traded stocks. (Basically, you can't switch to other apps, and you can't control the RT-3 GUI to shut the chart off!)

I've speculated that a dual-processor would help this situation a lot, as at least you'd be able to access your other applications.

However, I've fixed the problem by simply upgrading my system. (Now a 350mHz K62 with 128M PC100 SDRAM and a Matrox Millenium G-200.) I suspect that the biggest improvement was the fast AGP path to the video card - Townsend's drawing on the charts seems horribly inefficient. I can now plot any tick chart I want (say, a hot Internet stock) and several of them, to boot.
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