two gzips at the same time

Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had two cores?

Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two gzips at the same time, man.

Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had two cores, you'd do two gzips at the same time?

Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had two cores I could hook that up, too; 'cause processes dig CPUs with cores.

Peter Gibbons: Well, not all processes.

Lawrence: Well, the type of processes that'd double up on a PC like this do.

Peter Gibbons: Good point.

Lawrence: Well, what about you now? what would you do?

Peter Gibbons: Besides two gzips at the same time?

Lawrence: Well, yeah.

Peter Gibbons: Nothing.

Lawrence: Nothing, huh?

Peter Gibbons: I would idle... I would sit on my ass all day... I would do nothing.

Lawrence: Well, you don't need two cores to do nothing, man. Take a look at my cousin: he's got a 386, don't do shit.

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