[OT] multicore/cpu history Re: Are the critiques in "All the things I hate about Python" valid?

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:39 PM, Adriaan Renting <renting at astron.nl> wrote:
> I remember running 2 Mendocino 300 MHz Celerons on a Pentium II Xeon
> motherboard to get a
> multi-cpu machine for running multiple virtual machines for testing
> purposes around 1998.
> This was not as Intel intended, but a quite cheap consumer grade
> hardware solution.
>

Thanks! That's the sort of thing I was looking for. Out of curiosity,
what was the purpose of that rig and its dual CPUs? Were you running
the host system on one CPU and the guest on another?

ChrisA