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To: Saturn V who wrote (53223)	8/30/2001 4:23:20 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Saturn: Regarding applications, I think that even the desktop applications will benefit somewhat from the multi threaded capability. This is incorrect, however. At least for users running Win9x, WinME or the consumer version of WinXP. [When] Will Microsoft release multiprocessor-support to the masses? Who knows? I think that the Willamette and Northwood cores have the Jackson Technology built in, but initially it will be enabled only for Xeon. We agree on that part, but it just doesn't make a difference to most users whether or not it is enabled - until such a time Microsoft sees fit to support multiprocessing in their consumer version. Right now, MP support is one of the big selling points of the enterprise version (or whatever they are calling it) of WinXP over the regular consumer version. -fyo