Pentium 805D has an interesting surprise

[Bob King]

On 4/25/07, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >   The differences between Dualcore and Hyperthreading are debatable.
> > Is it possible that whatever reported the HT bit simply did so because
> > the capabilities from a software perspective are so simular?
>
>   After rereading, I anted to clarify.  Dualcore is better then
> Hyperthreading.  A HT processor actually shows as two logical
> processors, when there are actually only one that's capable of quickly
> switching between two things, looking from the outside like it's
> actually doing two at once.


I understood what you meant, and yes Dualcore is better than HT, but I
wanted both -- Just being greedy I guess.

The thought that the HT flag was set for a dualcore was what I initially
thought, but there are differences between a virtual cpu and a real one, so
I was uncertain.
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