On 5/29/11 6:00 PM, Richard wrote:
Massive
systems. Remember when we were all supposed to have oodles of little
processors we could throw at any problem?
With current multicore CPUs and the SIMD arrays in GPUs, one could
argue that Transputer, ConnectionMachine, etc., were just too early.
There were plenty of array machines during those years; they've been
around pretty much constantly since well before the Transputer era.
It's not as if it's a new thing.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL