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From: ottoman@computek.net (Ron Gazaway)
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: 3 Oct 1995 00:58:54 GMT
Organization: Ottoman Technologies
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In article <44p0vn$644@News1.mcs.net>
hendryj@Mercury.mcs.com (Jonathan W. Hendry) wrote: 

> Hmm. Programming question. Under Windows NT, on a multi-processor 
> box, is it possible to run copies of an application on each processor?
> Is is possible to specify which processor an application should run on?
> 
> If I wrote a Photoshop plug-in filter, could I have it spawn off little
> daemon-like filtering engines, one on each available processor?
> 
> Just curious if the capability is there, or if processors are handed out
> by the OS.
> 

The processors are handed out by the OS. A thread can _request_
a specific processor.

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