AMD Bulldozer vs. Intel i7-2600 -- I don't get it!

Thu Oct 13 20:19:43 UTC 2011

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 02:49:25PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Sure we can.  OS/2 and it's apps were multithreaded 20 years ago and
> could have made use of multiple cores had they been available back
> then.  You can thank BG for killing OS/2 and a lot of excellent
> technology with it.

NT could use multiple threads and cores just as well as OS/2.

People wanted DOS compatibility more than they wanted multithreading.

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