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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.computek.net!news 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 Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <44q1se$cj4@news.computek.net> References: <44735j$7qo@kappa.usc.edu> <DFHG2v.7Mw@ritz.mordor.com> <4491rp$gb0@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <44lr4s$g94@wn1.sci.kun.nl> <44p0vn$644@News1.mcs.net> Reply-To: ottoman@computek.net NNTP-Posting-Host: ft160.computek.net X-Newsreader: News for Windows NT X1.0-68 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips:34990 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems:20750 comp.os.linux.hardware:17666 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:7024 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. -- Ron Gazaway | PGP keyID = 06DFB7C9 1994/11/25 ottoman@computek.net | available on public key servers