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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:48:36 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:39 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:

> In article <20240923105336.0000119b@yahoo.com>, already5chosen@yahoo.com
> (Michael S) wrote:
> 
>> Why # of CPU cores on die is of particular importance?
> 
> Because multi-core made multi-processor systems commonplace, and far
> more software started using multiple threads.

Another interesting factor is that proprietary server software that had 
been licensed by number of CPUs mostly changed to licensing by number of 
CPU *sockets*.

Not sure how they were strongarmed into giving up revenue like this ...