Everhart, Glenn (FUSA)
From:	Fred Kleinsorge [kleinsorge@star.zko.dec.com]
Sent:	Tuesday, April 03, 2001 12:34 PM
To:	Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	Re: EV7 and EV8 for the low end (was: VMS-Related: Affordable)

Paul Repacholi wrote in message <87r8za6tqy.fsf@prep.synonet.com>...
>young_r@encompasserve.org (Rob Young) writes:
>
>Is the EV8 constrained to run all the threads in a single process
>context?  Or is it nearer a multi-CPU chip?
>

At the simplest level, EV8 can be treated by the OS as 4 independent CPUs.
With each "thread" appearing as an independent CPU.