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Name: Matt
Status: Student
Age: 16
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Date: March 2003
Question:
I was curious if windows 2000 was able to detect and use mulpitle processors? Like having 1 dual cpu motherboard or interfacing 2 dual cpu motherboards.


Replies:
I believe the standard Windows 2000 comes with a 1-2 CPU license. This means you can use it on single processor machines and dual processor machines (a.k.a. SMP machines).

I don't think you can interface 2 dual cpu motherboards directly. You would have to do so through a fast network connection. This is what clusters do, though they consist of lots and lots of computers connected via a fast network.

Scott Gose

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