On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 12:11, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 07:39:35AM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: > | On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 07:35, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > | > | > Why don't they just add an extra CPU to handle the GUI?? ;-) > | > | > | > | They did. 4.0.2 was the ES/MP (Enhanced Security/Multi Processing) > | > > | > I thought only NT-SMP did that. I *thought* I was being funny. :-) > | SVR4.2 is a totally threaded kernel. SVR5 (UnixWare 7/OpenUNIX 8) takes > | it even further. I run an OpenUnix 8+ box in addition to FreeBSD. if > | any FreeBSD developers want a shell account to look around, I can > | arrange it. > | > | [snip] > > I was just making a joke about how (IIRC) Win2K's use of a second CPU > in the default setting is just to offload all of the GUI handling to > it, so the UI stays snappy even when the machine is heavily loaded. I > would expect more advanced OS's to use a much better scheduler to > make better use of the other CPU. OIC. Just trying to get more information out.
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