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Will VFP8 take advantage of a dual processor server
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Visual FoxPro
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>A second processor is only useful for applications designed to take advantage of them. That means multiple threading for tasks that occur simultaneously. A single thread can only run on one processor at time, leaving the other one idle.
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>If your application is designed to work with multiple threads, or multiple instances of your program are running then the second processor will help.
>Otherwise its not worth the money.

In this case it I have 4 custom EXE's that are report servers. It sounds like (from your description) if two of these are running at once then each will use a different CPU.
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