Multi-core CPU support for win-98
98 Guy
utilize multi-core CPU's.
http://rloew.x10hosting.com/prerel.htm
It's not clear to me if the package allows existing multi-core
applications to run transparently on win-98 and make use of all
available cores, or if this is only to support new apps that are being
written by the user. The description of this package is as follows:
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SDK to support Multiple Cores.
This package allows Programmers to Allocate and use All Available Cores
to run concurrent Threads within their Programs. Control and
InterProcessor Subroutines are provided. Compatable with MEMORY64 64-Bit
RAM Package above. A Demonstration Package is now available for
Downloading.
A demo can be downloaded from
Lostgallifreyan
> It's not clear to me if the package allows existing multi-core
> applications to run transparently on win-98 and make use of all
> available cores, or if this is only to support new apps that are being
> written by the user.
Only those programmed to use it, currently (using his SDK). I'd try this demo
if I had multiple cores to do it on.. As his measure of interest is based on
up front payment I might do that anyway, it beats just waiting and hoping for
better things.
To make it transparent for existing programs he'd have to make his code
negotiate with whatever their methods are.
This is why I think the real answer would be a foundation converter at as low
a level as is possible. That way anything on the resulting platform sees it
as a single very fast CPU. I don't know if there is some critical obstacle to
doing that, there might be unless (for example) 8*NGHz CPU cores can be timed
to start a clock pulse at temporal offsets of 1/N/8 allowing a sort of
interleaving. If so, it could still need a hardware mod that is extremely
difficult to do, so I guess my idea might never happen. So Rudolph Loew's
idea might be the only game in town.