"The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly Known as Nina DiBoy'"
<nono@none.not> wrote in message news:fnapip$eno$1@aioe.org...
> Maybe this is nothing, but I am building myself a quad core (4 cpu cores
> on one die, so only one physical processor) system and I want to load XP
> Pro generic OEM. I do have a vista business retail license also I could
> use if I needed to (but really prefer not to use vista). Both EULAs state
> allowed for use with no more than 2 processors.
>
> XP Pro EULA:
>
> "The product may not be used on more than two (2) processors at any one
> time on any single workstation computer."

A multi-core processor is still classed as one processor.

If your system has only one processor socket, it supports one processor.
It doesn't matter how many cores there are.

HTH
-pk

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