On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:16:41AM +0100, Robert Varga wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:30:24PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > This may complicate Rusty's zen scheduler scheme. It certainly
> > > has made life complicated for the BIOS folks. They had to sort
> > > all the real CPUs to the front of the ACPI table, lest those folks
> > > so benighted as to run the crippled version of Win2K (which only
> > > on-lines 8 CPUs) only get four real CPUs out of eight.
> >
> > Rotfl, oh that is beautiful
>
> As it happens a guy from microsoft sitting next to me as I read this
> claims the DataCenter version of W2K has no limitation on number of
> processors.
Well, Datacenter is the non-crippled version. You get to pay a lot for
getting a non-crippled version, though. Soooo lame.
/David
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