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Old 08-05-2011, 23:31   #3706
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Re: General TiVo Discussion Part 2

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Originally Posted by richardc1983 View Post
In the review posted earlier it mentions about the 2nd stage of the CPU will be activated at a later date which will make the box faster. Why hasn't this been activated already?
Because it's not a simple thing to do. If you try to run software designed for a single CPU on a multiprocessor system unchanged, generally it will either crash, or will only use one processor and won't be any faster.
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