> "about 99% of all software available today is
> programmed to run on a single core processor" - Sander
> Sassen (Oct 20, 2006)
>
>   

It may well be true, especially if you count by "applications".  But 
most applications won't benefit from multi-threading. 

Most of the heavy applications I actually use say they use, or appear to 
use, multi-threading.  Notably Photoshop and Bibble Pro (neither of 
which runs on Solaris, though).   I don't really care if  little 
utilities that only do one thing are single-threaded; I care if the ones 
that I notice I'm waiting for are multi-threaded.

My next desktop system will be a quad-core or better, according to my 
current plans.

-- 
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