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From: dripton@netcom.com (David Ripton)
Subject: Re: GPL on Win NT?
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In article <361bc494.6933631@news.demon.co.uk>,
Ford Prefect <tout@fidramay.demon.co.uk.you-know-what-to-do> wrote:
>The date:  Wed, 07 Oct 1998 22:11:51 GMT;
>The author: jasonr@nospam.atlcom.net (Jason Reineri);
>The message.....
>>
>>Has anyone tried running it on NT5 beta with DirectX installed?  Seems
>>like this might work.  I really need to get NT set up on my
>>Workstation, but don't have enough space for dual boot.

>The reason I asked if GPL would run on NT was for the multi-cpu
>support.

I doubt it would buy you much.  GPL would run on one CPU, and the
OS on the other.  SMP doesn't buy you much when running a single
monolithic application, unless that application has been split into 
roughly symmetrical threads.  Besides, you can peg GPL's frame rate 
at the max 36 with a single $145 Celeron 300a.

Also, I don't think there are 3Dfx or Rendition drivers for NT5 
yet.

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