Re: two processors...

From: Howard J. Rogers (hjr_at_dizwell.com)
Date: 09/02/04 

Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:18:07 -0700

David Wright wrote:

[snip]

>> I appreciate the effort you've put into grepping around for things
>> relevant. If you could magic up a solution, I would be extremely happy of
>> course. In the meantime, is there no-one else with Suse 9.1 on an
>> Inspiron 5150, perhaps with HT working?
>>
>> Regards
>> HJR
>
> Well, as they say Hyperthreading is one of the big selling points on their
> Intel based CPU's and then flog them with XP Home

Mine came with XP Pro, actually.

You'll be able to put the garlic away shortly, but if I was installing XP
these days, I wouldn't even dream of mucking around with Home.

> - which won't boot on
> multi-CPU or machines with Hyperthreading - you have to wonder if they
> know anything about Intel CPU's... (As I've never bought a HT Pentium, I
> am only going by what the magazine reviews at the time of XP's launch
> said, that XP Home didn't support multi-processor or multi-threading, if
> Dell have a botched together version of XP Home which does support HT,
> then I apologise.)
>
> It always struck me as strange to make a big thing of having
> hyperthreading and then selling the machine with it switched off and an OS
> that doesn't support it...

Which, sadly, is what I appear to be currently stuck with courtesy of Suse
9.1.

OK, you can put the garlic away now. I'll be nice about Linux and Suse
again.

HJR

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