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To: Joe NYC who wrote (94677)2/23/2000 10:39:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Respond to of 1572014
 
Joe,

How differently would a dual core, single chip CPU behave from simple dual CPU (from OS standpoint). Shouldn't the CPU configuration be transparent to the OS?

The OS has to understand the configuration of the processors, in order to utilize them properly. I would think that OS support for CMP (Chip MultiProcessing) would be very similar to SMP.

Scumbria