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Old June 26th 07, 10:32 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Nate Edel
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Default Intel Xeon Quad Core Processor

Corso wrote:
Is this one CPU that can do the work of four?
If so, for applications that are licensed per CPU - what happens
there? Uproar?


Some applications of that sort count one core as one CPU (Oracle); others
count one socket as one CPU (Windows.)

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