[clug] Dual core or dual processor?

[Mike Carden]

On 11/27/06, Ian McCulloch <ianmcc at physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> A dual core machine is the same as a dual processor system, the only
> difference being that the two processors are on the same physical piece of
> silicon.

I had some idea that there was a difference in on-die caches between
dual core and discrete dual processors and that dual core is second
best. Then again, I'm probably either misguided or Living in the Past.

-- 
MC