Re: 5.0.7 Fresh Installion with Merge 5

From: Jean-Pierre Radley (jpr_at_jpr.com)
Date: 09/25/03 

Date: 25 Sep 2003 16:35:30 -0400

Marc Champagne typed (on Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:57:53PM +0000):
| "Bob Bailin" <72027.3605@compuserve.com> wrote in
| news:6jmcb.1868$Ql3.1@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com:
|
| >> What's the purpose of having an SMP license then?
| >
| > An SMP license is needed if you have more than one physical
| > CPU on your motherboard. A P4 with hyperthreading presents
| > itself to the system as two virtual CPUs, and no license is
| > needed for that 2nd virtual CPU (but the SMP software needs
| > to be installed).
|
| in TA#125320 ( http://tinyurl.com/ooc1 ), there is a passage
| as follows:
|
| SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 with SCO OpenServer Update Pack
| 1 applied supports Hyperthreading.
|
| I would tend to believe (from the above TA) that installing
| SMP is not really needed.

Oh come on. Cite the TA a bit more accurately.
SMP's really needed if you have, and expect to use, more than one CPU. 

-- 
JP

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