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Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 14:19:06 +0200 (SAST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
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On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Well, it makes performance _so_ much better on a P4 that it's not even 
> funny. It's basically a "P4 is unusable with SMP" without it.

Out of interest, does anyone have an idea of what Windows does?

	Zwane

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