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Re: [News] Vista Home Lacks Support for Dual-core AMD Chips

After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:

> Quad-core on Vista Home, an Intel exclusive
>
> | According to the tech sheet on ExtremeTech as well as other
> | websites, Vista home only supports one physical processor.
> | This means that AMD's 4x4 platform, which uses 2 dual-core
> | chips, will not work.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yu2456
>
> More artificial limitations.

Can this really be true, though?  Why would MS drop SMP support from
Windows?

That would be shooting themselves in the foot.

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   Don't flip the Bozo Bit.

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