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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (61851)	10/21/2001 4:26:59 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Respond to of 74651

XP Home is uniprocessor only. XP Pro supports 2-way MP. MP systems represent a very tiny fraction of desktop systems.

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (61851)	10/21/2001 4:34:10 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 74651

Charles - the Win9X series OS products, like DOS before them, could only use a single processor. The machines being upgraded from Win9X are therefore pretty much guaranteed to have only single processor capability. NT prior to Win2K had 2 kernels - a single processor kernel and a multiprocessor kernel. This was back when memory footprint was a big deal, and the single processor kernel would run in less than 12 MB, whereas the MP kernel needed at least 16MB. In today's world that distinction is pretty meaningless, so with Win2K they just shipped the MP kernel. I have only used the various betas of XP and RC1, which all support MP. I would assume that any multiprocessor capable machine would ship with MP capable OS... I don't generally think of using "home" products myself and have little familiarity with them, although my kids do have a Win98 machine.