Quote Originally Posted by angra
programming for multi processors is, in general, an open research question, but there is a large body of work that will let game programmers do some basic thing with dual core CPU pretty quickly. The problem is, at least with the technologies in play here, the software must be written to take advantage of the multiple processors...
Think of this way, I've been running x86 mutithreaded apps (like oracle) since Compaq released the systempro XL fileserver with 2 486 DX 50's. This is not a new field and there's a lot more technology available from mid range iron even earlier in history. This is just new to game dev's...they'll get it in a hurry or they will get fired when the competition pulls ahead