[Tfug] Dual cores and hyperthreading

[John Gruenenfelder]

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 09:27:08PM -0700, Harry McGregor wrote:
>>
>Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo) does not support Hyper Threading.  Also, it's 
>not a Pentium 4 base, it's a P6 base.  The Core Duo, is an evolution of 
>the Pentium M, which was a Pentium III with the P4 bus, and a few other 
>nice things.  The PIII was of course a PII with SSE, and the PII was a 
>Pentium Pro with it's cache moved onto a card instead of being a multi 
>chip module.
>
>The P4 (aka netburst) really should be NetBUST, Intel tried for high GHz 
>and failed.  They were estimating 4.5GHz by now on 90nm, and they were 
>not even able to make 3.8GHz on 65nm.
>
>Core 2 Duo (aka Conroe) supports HT IIRC.  Laptop version should be out 
>soon.

Ah... thanks for clearing that up.  Guess I'll have to change that setting
next time I need to compile the kernel.


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