Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 May 2005 19:46:10 +0100 | From | "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <> | Subject | Re: /proc/cpuinfo format - arch dependent! |
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* Ricky Beam (jfbeam@bluetronic.net) wrote: > > Your HT DC CPU counts as 4 cpus total... the same as two HT processors. > The system does not fundamentally need to make a distinction on dual core > vs. two actual chips + heat sinks + fans. The system will perform almost > identically (if not acutally identically) to a dual (single core) processor > system.
That *might* be the case for a current one; but I'm sure dual core processors will end up sharing a level of cache/bus arbitration sometime. Anyway it is a bit nasty not to real dual-core'd ness to things, after all they might get upset if someone tried to hotswap one.....
Dave P.S. On the side note of early dual core chips; there is an R65c00/21 and R65c29 listed in a 1985 Rockwell datasheet I've got - dual 6502s!
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