29 May
2011
29 May
'11
3:34 p.m.
ILLIAC IV anyone?
The idea is old as dirt. I am talking about the mid-1980s, when
microprocessors were cheap and fast enough to be assembled into a
massive system and really do well in the price/performance area. Sure,
you could have made an MPP system with some cheap minicomputers like
PDP-8/Fs, but the beancounters would start screaming.
And I bet it would have sucked.
--
Will