Re: [WinMac] dual processors?

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Wed, 19 Jan 2000 19:57:18 -0500

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        The short answer to all of your questions is Yes.

        Essentially, when you're using something like Photoshop the thread
dispatcher will load up one CPU with the given filter you're running, while
the other CPU is handling everything else, including housekeeping. Just
make sure you have a SCSI disk system with the hard drive on its own SCSI
channel.

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 02:44 PM 1/19/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Dual processors. Are they worth the extra expense?
>
>We're looking at getting a new Dell Workstation with a 733MHz processor
>w/ 512MB of RAM. For an extra $1100 we can make it a dual processor but
>is it worth it? We'll be running it with Windows NT Workstation (sp5)
>and using large Photoshop files 20MB-100MB. Can the WinNT (or the new
>upcoming Win2K) operating system take advantage of the dual processors?
>Can Photoshop take advantage of the dual processors?
>
>Thanks!
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Tom Roth Wake Forest University School of Medicine

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