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[lproven]

Actual original article on Heise. Do please feel free to Slashdot it or whatever. :-)

Intel's new six-core CPUs highlight Windows' limitations

Modern PC specifications are starting to hit some of the fundamental limits of current operating systems - both architectural and licensing-imposed.

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[lproven]

Ta!

And yes, indeed. It's going to be a problem for everyone. I think Google Chrome is heading the right way - threads have proved to be too hard for most people, so spin off extra processes. For everything that /can/ be delegated to another process.

[ccomley]

And we already have dual quad-core machines. But no-one uses one as a windows w/s.

Actually, we are now using two of them - in place of about ten retired five year old servers. With room to spare - we only got two coz you can't trust one of anything...