[Info-vax] RMS intro

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 19:43:49 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 1/5/2024 6:25 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> For example, Windows Phone 7 only ran on a single core.
> 
> WP7 was a bit limited because it was based on Windows CE.

No, it was all the NT kernel.

>> Windows Phone 8
>> only ran on two cores--no more, no less. This was when contemporary
>> versions of Android could run on anything from a single core up to--I’m
>> not sure, there were 4-core, might even have been some 8-core devices
>> by that time.
> 
> Good story. But it has nothing to do with reality.
> 
> WP8 was Windows NT based and supported up to 64 cores.

The Windows Phone 8 specs were public knowledge. That’s what Microsoft 
told OEMs. I was watching all this unfold at the time.

Certainly it would not run on a single core.