Re: Dual processors ?

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From: Mark Addinall
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 08:22

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William Park wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Mark Addinall <maddinall@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> 
>>
>>William Park wrote:
>>
>>>Obviously, you don't do much harddisk trashing.  
>>
>>I'll assume that's a typo...
> 
> 
> Sorry, it should've been 'thrashing'.  But, now I think about it, I've
> crashed my share of disks... :-)
> 
> 
>>>For CPU consideration
>>>only, dual can run 2 processes, so it's more responsive, both in theory
>>>and in practice.  If you are doing lots of IDE I/O, then your computer
>>>will crawl no matter what.  So, it makes more sense to go with
>>>single-CPU and spend some money on SCSI.
>>
>>What?  That's why God invented Cache architectures for use with
>>symmetrical multiprocessing systems.  It is ALWAYS better to use
>>a multi-processing system for modern operating system architectures.
>>No good for CP/M, MS-DOS or Windows 95.  Plenty good for all brands
>>of *NIX, winslows2000, NT (VMSII).
> 
> 
> I wonder whether you have any experience.  

Not much.  Just the odd bit here and there.

Retard.

Mark Addinall.

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