30 May
2011
30 May
'11
12:32 p.m.
In article <BANLkTi=C_2kwdkCt0-x58svOGsPMhBMmDg at mail.gmail.com>,
William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> writes:
Topologically, they are the same. As far as architecture goes, its
the topology that matters. As far as commercial success goes, its
the performance that matters. You seem to think they failed on both
architecture and commercial success. I'm saying they couldn't make a
go of it in the market, but eventually their ideas proved out. Right
idea, wrong time/implementation.
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The
architectures aren't substantially different; the component
density and communication latencies/bandwidth are substantially
different.
In other words, the networking. I mentioned that previously as the
stumbling block.