No it was not truly standard. A local store had had a canceled order on a dual processor machine. We bought it at bargain with the 256 M or Ram and 8 Meg sccsi hard disk. Plugging in the second processor did not make it faster that the big machine with 2 processors -- but make it 1.5 it's old speed.
>Hi Gar,
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>>>Where's Mac. Rubel when you really need a benchmark! < bg >

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>I believe that what Erik replied - that VFP does multithread internally, though *we* cannot make use of it directly ourselves - is the most likely explanation. I'm pretty sure that I have read some MS VFP team member saying that it *does* multithread internally.
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>>One last thing. We tried it on one of our more standard workstations -- 256 MB --8 Gig Scsci. We got a pretty big increase there as well -- around 1.5. So it seems that as Erik says VFP is multi-threading --and you can get a real perfornance improvement with multi-processors. This also implies that faster chips may be a good thing as well. In short VFP can apparently take pretty much take advantage of every toy out there...
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>I take it that the "more standard workstation" is *not* a multiprocessor, so I infer that it has a faster processor than the dualed server.
>What are the processor speeds involved? What the RAM on the dual?
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>Cheers,
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>JimN