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To: Petz who wrote (71960)2/19/2002 6:49:37 PM
From: dale_laroyRespond to of 275872
 
>Also, this kind of parallelism avoids per-CPU charges since the operating system (EDIT - nor Bill Gates, HA!) doesn't have to know a thing about the little "threads" that the CPU is creating dynamically, all by itself.<

True, but it appears that the P4 Xeon with Hyperthreading does do SMT (combined with Jackson Technology), since Intel is in a major row with Microsoft over their per logical processor charges versus per physical processor.