On 2018-03-25, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Not really. With multiple CPUs, you have the option of running two
> distinct OSes in isolation, not merely virtual machines but actual
> distinct machines in the same box.
Not on any of the multi-CPU motherboards I
On 2018-03-25 22:52:59 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 23:29:07 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> >> >> By the way, multiple CPU machines are different from CPUs with
> >> >> multiple cores:
> >> >>
> >> >> http://smallbusiness.chron.com/multiple-cpu-vs-multicore-33195.html
> >>
On Monday 26 March 2018 12:12:46 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:30:54 -0400, Gene Heskett
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> declaimed the following:
> >On Monday 26 March 2018 10:06:36 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
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> >>As I recall, the bootloader on the Raspberry Pi runs
On Monday 26 March 2018 10:06:36 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:02:15 + (UTC), Steven D'Aprano
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> declaimed the following:
> >Hardware people can probably tell you what it is that CPUs do that
> > FPUs and GPUs don't do. Or
On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:03:43 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> At what point does it change from being two CPUs to being one CPU and
> one auxiliary processing unit?
When someone writes an OS that will run on the "auxiliary processing
unit" alone, then it's probably time to start calling it a CPU
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 9:52 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 23:29:07 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>
> [...]
>>> >> By the way, multiple CPU machines are different from CPUs with
>>> >> multiple cores:
>>> >>
>>> >>
On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 23:29:07 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
[...]
>> >> By the way, multiple CPU machines are different from CPUs with
>> >> multiple cores:
>> >>
>> >> http://smallbusiness.chron.com/multiple-cpu-vs-multicore-33195.html
>> >
>> > Yeah, it was always "multiple CPUs", not "multiple
On 2018-02-19 12:39:51 +0100, Adriaan Renting wrote:
> >>> On 17-2-2018 at 22:02, in message
> ,
> Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 5:05 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> >
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:39 PM, Adriaan Renting wrote:
> I remember running 2 Mendocino 300 MHz Celerons on a Pentium II Xeon
> motherboard to get a
> multi-cpu machine for running multiple virtual machines for testing
> purposes around 1998.
> This was not as Intel intended,