maybe I mis-read... I _still_ read his question as can one
thread use CPU/int, and another thread use CPU/fpu. And this
seemed (to me) to be independent of the dual pentium issue.
Perhaps I simply misinterpreted what he meant. Because the
concept of one thread using int on one cpu and the other thread
using only the fpu on the second cpu makes no sense in the context
of intel, since I know of no way to execute _only_ FP instructions
without bothering the int half of the cpu...
But if that is what he meant (your interpretation) this was an
error on my part...
Sorry...
Bob
Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences
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On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Robert M. Hyatt wrote:
>
> > no. The FPU uses CPU state information. A single thread can issue
> > both FPU and normal CPU instructions and they will be interlaced and
> > executed in parallel by the hardware. But a single cpu can execute
> ^^^^^^^^^^
> > a single thread, because there is but one program counter per cpu.
>
> > On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Comandante wrote:
> >
> > > I have a dual p200mmx so I have a total of two FPUs, my
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Any questions?
>
> Rik
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