On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:43:44 GMT, sig666 <sig666nospam@yahoo.com>
wrote:

Beemer Biker wrote:

"Max Power" <mikehack@u.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:dnjsn9$krf$1@gnus01.u.washington.edu...

FAQ : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthreading

Just want to point out that the wikipedia articles are written by
contributers such as you and I.  It is quite possible this HT article was
written by AMD.  Look here for controversy surrounding wikkipedia's
anonomous contributors
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA121105.01B.wikipedia.320ce32.html

Hyper-threading, officially called Hyper-Threading Technology (HTT), is
Intel's trademark for their implementation of the simultaneous
multithreading technology on the Pentium 4 microarchitecture. It is
basically a more advanced form of Super-threading that first debuted on

Which to me sounds like a fancy name for a particular implementation
of  parallel processing which may include some of the intracies in
their implementation.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com