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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: Number Of CPU's
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 16:18:04 -0700
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- >>>>> "Melissa" == Melissa Algeo <melissa@ardi.com> writes:
- In article <m0twyA2-000GOKC@gwar.ardi.com> melissa@ardi.com (Melissa Algeo) writes:
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- >>>>> "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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