On Sat Dec 15 08:02:40 PM, Michael L Torrie wrote: > Dave Smith wrote: > > Has anyone run Linux on a quad-core machine yet? Experiences to share? > > Yes. It works fine. Linux thinks it has 4 processors. Note that none > of the current crop of quadcore chips are really quad core. They are > dual core where each core shows up as two instances (parallel pipelines > and such).
From what I understand, that's true for Intel quad-cores, but not for
AMDs. They are true quad-core procs.
-Evan
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