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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 10:23:30 +0100
From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
To: Robert Varga <nite@hq.alert.sk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, jamesclv@us.ibm.com,
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.17-pre5
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:16:41AM +0100, Robert Varga wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:30:24PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > This may complicate Rusty's zen scheduler scheme.  It certainly
> > > has made life complicated for the BIOS folks.  They had to sort
> > > all the real CPUs to the front of the ACPI table, lest those folks
> > > so benighted as to run the crippled version of Win2K (which only
> > > on-lines 8 CPUs) only get four real CPUs out of eight.
> > 
> > Rotfl, oh that is beautiful
> 
> As it happens a guy from microsoft sitting next to me as I read this
> claims the DataCenter version of W2K has no limitation on number of
> processors.

Well, Datacenter is the non-crippled version. You get to pay a lot for
getting a non-crippled version, though. Soooo lame.


/David
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