MyCattMaxx
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But the point still remains..Why dual boot when you have the pro ver?
Dual booting XP Pro and XP Home
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tlarkin
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You would most likely see Winserver 2003 or something that used on a multi cpu board. Those are geared for server builds and networks were if one cpu gets loaded up the next one takes over from there. The problems seen on running XP witrh the newer dual core cpus are oftern repaired with an update of the bios version along with a special registry edit. That just happens to be the one used for multiple cpued boards as well.
That are bottle necks do to system tweaks, bad hardware config, or crappy resource management by the OS. Dual core processors are nice, but not the same as dual processors. However, I agree with you, only really in server side products, and high end work stations are multiple processors really need (audio/video rendering).
maybe they are a developer and want to test certain things out on both platforms.
Geoff
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I was actually referring to two seperate CPU's, I just used the wrong term there.
MyCattMaxx
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If they are a developer they would know how to dual boot! And a developer would have more than likely have more than one comp.
tlarkin
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well not totally true. I know some programmers who don't really know how to install hard drives or ram, things I consider simple. They can however, write really complicated algorithms that I don't understand.
I've seen some techs with elaborate and I mean "elaborate" setups with several cases patched into one monitor. You simply push a button or turn a selector knob to see another OS on the screen. When you have the financial backing of a dictionary company you can have a well resourced lab there alright.
Talk about "every" OS available. That includes a larger variety of Linux distros as well. If you saw that setup your eyes would go... 