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Does Windows 2000 work with symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) hardware?

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Does Windows 2000 work with symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) hardware?

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Windows 2000 was developed from Windows NT, and inherits its support for SMP hardware. Basically, if you have an SMP system running NT 4.0 today, you can expect it to support Windows 2000. Windows 2000 Professional and Server support single- and dual-processor systems. Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Data Center Edition support up to eight-way multiprocessing. Applications must be multithreaded in order to exploit SMP, and how much benefit depends on how the application uses its threads–Microsoft Office, for example, only uses a second processor for background tasks such as printing and spell checking. At all other times, additional processors go unused.Windows 2000 was developed from Windows NT, and inherits its support for SMP hardware. Basically, if you have an SMP system running NT 4.0 today, you can expect it to support Windows 2000. Windows 2000 Professional and Server support single- and dual-processor systems. Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Data Center Edition support up to

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