[rescue] SMP on intel wasteful?

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

>   Does it strike anyone as odd that most of the people we know who
> have Windows boxes only use them for playing games?

I use it for games and a glorified 1600x1200 Xterm (until I can afford SSI
or better for the Octane) here.  The sad thing is that, even with such a
reduced workload, Wintendo still finds a way to crash and burn thanks to
every damned driver in the world running 100% in kernel space instead of
neatly split, keeping -only- the necessary parts in privileged mode.

--Jonathan