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Windows 7 To Be 256-Core Aware

Posted by kdawson on from the so-they-say-now dept.

unassimilatible writes "As new features of Windows 7 continue to trickle out, ZDNet is now reporting that it will scale to 256 processors. While one has to wonder, like with Vista, how many of the teased features will actually make it into the final OS, I think we can all agree, 256 cores is enough for anybody." This Mark Russinovich interview has some technical details (Silverlight required).

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  1. Microsoft scumbags are out early today. by pallmall1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hmmm. -1 and -1 mods.

    The Microsoft Moderator Minions are out early today.

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  2. Scale to 256 cores... by QuietLagoon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ... with 254 of the cores being used for DRM.

  3. Re:256 cores... pfft by moranar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You have a very, very flawed understanding of "orders of magnitude". While 256 *2 *2 *2 *2 might be 4096, that has nothing to do with the fact that 256 and 4096 are _one_ order of magnitude apart. Unless you count in binary, which we're not.

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