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Re: Number Of CPU's



>>>>> "Melissa" == Melissa Algeo <melissa@ardi.com> writes:
In article <m0twyA2-000GOKC@gwar.ardi.com> melissa@ardi.com (Melissa Algeo) writes:


>>>>> "Calvin" == Calvin Smith <hawk@inf.net> writes:
    Calvin> When I register my executor/DOS. All versions since I
    Calvin> started to use executor 1.99p5.  Executor says: 'Number of
    Calvin> CPUs: 1'

    Calvin> My question is why does executor care about the number of
    Calvin> CPUs?  If I have more than one then does it do Multi
    Calvin> Finder or something?

    Melissa> That means that you have a 1-CPU license, which is the
    Melissa> normal thing.  With such a license, Executor will not run
    Melissa> if there's already another copy running on the same CPU
    Melissa> (one user at a time is allowed).

Close, but not quite correct.

It does mean that you have a 1-CPU license, but you *are* allowed to
run multiple instances of Executor on a single CPU at one time.  Under
NEXTSTEP you can actually cut and paste between separate Executor
instances.  The ability to cut and paste between multiple instances of
Executor running on one CPU is something that we hope to support under
Linux, Windows and OS/2 sometime in the future.

    Melissa> This doesn't matter much under DOS, but it can matter
    Melissa> under Linux or NEXTSTEP.

Indeed it can, which is why the 1-CPU license allows multiple instances.

    Melissa> We don't have multifinder capability yet.

When we have cut and paste going and can do a better job with file
sharing, having multiple instances of Executor running on top of a
modern OS (NEXTSTEP, Linux, Windows '95, Windows NT and OS/2 come to
mind) will be *better* than multifinder in that each instance of
Executor will be protected from the other intances and from other
processes in general.

    Melissa> -- Melissa Algeo melissa@ardi.com

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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