DM> I hear you. I started on this track because I was informed
 DM> that the Pentium architecture could perform parts of several
 DM> threads simultaneously, not as a multi-processor, but
 DM> because of the architecture alone. Are you saying that this
 DM> is untrue?

   That is not true.  The Pentium can execute only one thread at a time. 
What it can do is execute two instructions at a time, provided the two
instructions are certain pairs, in a specific order, but this requires that
the code be compiled with full Pentium optimizations.

Jeff

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