In article <001701c79da0$1fb7dce0$ef77facd@your55e5f9e3d2>, "John W." <juanw@telus.net> writes:
with SETI, but that was a bust). In any case I am curious about how these two processors are used, and if they are used at all unless I do something specific about them. I've discovered that they can indeed be coaxed into operation, and wondered if I could do this with Fractint. It would seem to be ideal for long deep zooms.
You should be able to set the processor affinity for FractInt for Windows using that utility. A command-line option can be added to do this without the utility if there is consensus that this is valuable. I have no idea what the DOS code will do; it probably never is split among processors. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>