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Ten: Smooth, I'm really afraid that the whole push to dual-core will fall flat on its face

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I think not. We constantly hear the old argument about not needing more and more compute performance. This just doesn't seem to ever pan out. The new PC architecture is adding even more performance as we type. With the advent of the platform strategy in both the digital office and the home, I think you will find plenty of areas in which dual core performance will be needed. One thing for sure, more performance begets applications that need more performance.

Right now,virus scanning is minimal, most scheduling it to occur at off hours, or when it comes up, cancelling it. Most of my workers do, anyway. This is one area that needs much more development.

Also, in a earlier post, I pointed out that all applications are process based and sub-processes are capable of being scheduled on multi-cores. I think you will find significant speed improvement with dual cores.

Smooth