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With 1 pentium, much is lost due to operating system overhead, and multitasking. With the second, NT determines how much cpu time the app needs, whether it is just 1 pentium, 1 and 1\2 the other or any combination, and constantly monitors the situation.With 1 pentium running the OS, and the other running just your foxpro app, there is a huge benefit from this. Why don't you see this. If you take 500 pounds of weight off your car, there is a huge increase in effective horse power and speed, even though you have not done a thing to the engine, assuming 7 pounds= 1 horsepower, you would get around 70 more horsepower and the car would be alot faster. Foxpro is a windows app last time I looked. Nt decides whether 2 pentiums are used on 1 app, 1 each on 2 apps, 1\2 each on 4 apps, etc, just like it dynamically allocates cache, and ram according. Check the tech diagrams on the NT OS kernal, and code layers, you will see. OS2 SMP is now shipping as well and is similiar, though not as dynamic, and sophisticated. cameron