That reminds me of when NT first came out. They had a demo where they'd show bar charts of CPU utilisation for multiple processors and show them ramping up and down exactly in sync as they ran more software on the box. Except the demo was a fake. It was actually showing CPU utilisation for one CPU on both bars. I actually saw someone from Microsoft show this at a trade show and I did a lot of work with Sun multicore boxes and it looked weird how the bars were exactly in step, like far too perfect to be a real world demo, but I figured they were just using a demo app that was rigged to use exactly the same cycles on both CPUs or something, not that the whole thing was a lie.
Boy that dates me, apart from the fact this was NT maybe 3.5 or so, what happened to PC trade shows?
