From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)


In article , "Gary Britt"
 wrote:
>
>P.S. On a related but slightly off topic question.  I've read XP Home does
>NOT support multiple CPU's.  I've been unable to confirm that XP Home
>properly supports Hyper Threading in a single CPU, since Hyperthreading
>shows up in device manager as TWO CPU's.  I'd like to know if I'm getting
>any Hyperthreading benefit or not out of my laptop or if I have to get an
>upgrade to XP Pro to get an operating system that properly handles
>hyperthreading??

I've just been dicussing that on another news sever (WRT dual core support
for OS/2). XP can detect the difference between a single dual-core CPU and
two CPUs. XP Home supports dual-core CPUS but not multiple CPUs.

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Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
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