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From: "Yousuf Khan" <bbb...@ezrs.com>
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 05:34:46 GMT
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alexi wrote:
> Are you speaking from experience about ability of a Windows
> application to allocate one logical processor solely for itself, or
> this is your conjecture?

There is code available from Intel itself which can show you how to
determine how many physical and logical processors there are in a system.
Doable completely in user mode, without OS assistence.

> Last time I heard (and it was today, from a
> big
> manager from a very relevant company), MSoft has no hardware concept
> of asymmetrical multitasking, but I might misinterpreted the issue...
> Could you clarify please?

What do you mean by asymmetrical multitasking?

    Yousuf Khan