Will dual processors totally kill Win98

[mbaker74]

I know that Windows 2000 will take advantage of the dual processors but I'm wondering if Windows 98 will at least run? Using 1 processor of course.

Thanks,
Matt

[Brydon]

As far as I am aware it will run but it will only use one cpu.

[Sterling_Aug]

I had my BP-6 dual processor machine running Win98 without any problems, but like Brydon said, it only used one processor then while the other processor idled.

I have since upgraded to Win2k and all is well.

[mbaker74]

I've had trouble running some games in Windows 2000. I don't remember but I heard something called APCOMPAT.EXE that would emulate different OS's under W2k. Heard it only worked like 30% of the time though.

[mbaker74]

Sorry. Forgot my question...Are there any good sites to look at?

[Bgmuser]

As far as I know it should work fine with Win98. Of course it will only be using one processor because Win98 doesn't support SMP.

To get the full benifits of a dual-processor system get a OS that supports SMP. Some examples are: Win2000, BeOS, or Linux.

[Wilan Wong]

As far as I know, Win98 should run fine, but it won't use the second processor.Like winNT does and Win2000.

[wtp]

win 98 only supports up to ONE CPU, if u wanna use Dual CPU, get NT or Win2k