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* dual core?
@ 2006-07-24 15:32 Christopher Faylor
  2006-07-24 17:34 ` One Angry User
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From: Christopher Faylor @ 2006-07-24 15:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
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If a hippo falls on a dual core processor in the forest will it make
twice as much noise as if it fell on a normal processor?  How about a
hyperthreaded processor?  Will it make maybe 1.3X the amount of noise?

cgf

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* Re: dual core?
  2006-07-24 15:32 dual core? Christopher Faylor
@ 2006-07-24 17:34 ` One Angry User
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From: One Angry User @ 2006-07-24 17:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List

On a breezy Monday, the 24th day of July, 2006, Christopher Faylor's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:

> If a hippo falls on a dual core processor in the forest will it make
> twice as much noise as if it fell on a normal processor?  How about a
> hyperthreaded processor?  Will it make maybe 1.3X the amount of noise?

It depends on whether the processor had its pins up or down.

OAU

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