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12 Aug 2024 19:34:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Dual processors?  
From: Lance Birch
Date: 21 Jan 1999 17:39:10
Message: <36a7ac8e.0@news.povray.org>
(you can see the other posts to this thread for compat with POV-Ray)

NT is so much faster than Win 95/98 that it isn't funny!!!

It is also much more stable.  Dual processor compatibility is in NT only,
95/98 can't handle it.  You can also go up to 6 processors if you want as
long as they are "normal" pentiums, in other words, not Pentium II.  As for
the benefits of dual processing.  Well, some people say that it isn't that
great... but it is!!!  If the program supports multi-threading (most new
high-end graphics and rendering programs do) then it's gonna fly!!!

NT is a good power Operating System.  It's lucky that Microsoft have finally
come to their senses in dropping the 95/98 series and going to Windows 2000
(aka NT 6.0).

I've never run POV-Ray under NT, but I'm sure that it would have speed
improvements doing so.

--
Lance.


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