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> Christopher Sharp wrote:


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>if my memory servers me correctly the
> shrink-wrapped NT 3.51 was licensed for up to 8.  

Well, the old Sequent Winservers used to run up to 12 cpus....

> I hear that even Microsoft mice carry a license agreement forbidding you to attach them to a unit with more than two processors.  

Easy to explain.  They get confused, develop split personalities, and
develop inferiority complexes (after all, they only have one ball!). 
I'm sure you can understand Microsoft's reluctance to accept the
liability problems of miscreant mice.

IMHO Windows without a mouse isn't very useful and AFAIK
> nobody has passed the logon screen without a mouse or keyboard (or did I miss
> some huge development of telepathic communications equipment?).

...Hi, Mr. Nobody here.  And has.  I have successfully passed not only
the log-on screen, but recovered most of a crashed NTW 3.51
installation, sans mouse.  Didn't need no stinkin' fureign telepathy,
neither.  Just got myself a 100 gw radar transmitters and blasted them
electrons right where I wanted 'em.  (Course the neighbors were a bit
annoyed with that big Phased Array blocking ouyt the sunlight, and there
was that ugly dog that got too close and was toasted..... :-)