In article <398ff0ae@news.povray.org>, "Thorsten Froehlich" 
<tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

> No, this is not the case when running Mac OS (it will be the case 
> once Mac OS X is out early next year).  Mac OS still uses co-operate 
> multitasking...
...snip...

As I understand it, the problem isn't the cooperative multitasking, it 
is the way the multiprocessing is done. Currently, the Mac OS doesn't do 
SMP(symmetric multiprocessing), it is assymetric. I think the OS gets 
one CPU, and applications run on the second, unless they are 
specifically designed to handle multiple CPUs(PhotoShop, for example, 
can use both CPUs).


> Of course, it is always possible to install Linux PPC on a dual-G4 
> Mac, and the multiprocessing world is 'normal' again :-)

Or you could just wait until the OS X public beta is released...

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