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From: hoeij@sci.kun.nl (Mark van Hoeij)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dual Pentium MotherBoard.
Date: 1 Oct 1995 10:39:24 GMT
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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In <4491rp$gb0@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> lin1974@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Chien-hung Lin) writes:

>What systems or OS or programs would take advantage of the extra 
>CPU?

One of the workstations here has 4 CPU's.
If you run 1 computation on it the machine is not faster than the other
workstations. However, if you run 4 computations on it then all 4 get
100% CPU time instead of 25%.
This is useful on systems with lots of users who run CPU intensive apps.

Mark van Hoeij