Grady, as Greg pointed, it is the OS Decission, but using Windows XP Pro or Vista Ultimate, in a multi core machine you are most likely to take advantage of your dual or multi core, because both OS support Multi cores.

Even in the same process, spanning several threads you could take advantage of that.



>Imagine writing an app that shares a table and processes a lot of math calcs.
>Compile it and name it appA
>Compile it again and name it appB
>appA uses the top half of the table
>appB uses the bottom half of the table
>Run them both at the same time
>Will the apps take advantage of the dual core?