Panther Ready for Multi-Processing

We have already talked about this crazy rumor : a Mac with more then 2 CPUs. We ignore if this rumor will actually materialize, but Kirk discovered something very interesting. In the panther system, there is a file named "AppleSystemInfo.strings" (in system/library/coreservice). We can find an interesting passage :

// String used to describe a dual processor configuration. // // IMPORTANT: Make sure the right hand side value contains the substring "%@". // "%@" will get replaced by the processor speed and type string // (e.g. "800 MHz PowerPC G3"). //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "2xCPUFormat" = "Dual %@"; // String used to describe a triple processor configuration. // // IMPORTANT: Make sure the right hand side value contains the substring "%@". // "%@" will get replaced by the processor speed and type string // (e.g. "800 MHz PowerPC G3"). //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "3xCPUFormat" = "3 x %@"; // String used to describe a quadruple processor configuration. // // IMPORTANT: Make sure the right hand side value contains the substring "%@". // "%@" will get replaced by the processor speed and type string // (e.g. "800 MHz PowerPC G3"). //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "4xCPUFormat" = "4 x %@"; // String used to describe a N processor configuration where N > 2. // // IMPORTANT: Make sure the right hand side value contains the substrings "%1$d" // and "%2$@". "%1$d" will get replaced by the number of processors (e.g. "4"), // and "%2$@" will get replaced by the processor speed and type string // (e.g. "800 MHz PowerPC G3"). //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "NxCPUFormat" = "%1$d x %2$@";