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From: srh@wind.bellcore.com (stevan r harnad)
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Subject: Parallelism, Real vs. Simulated: A Query
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Date: 6 Oct 89 03:49:35 GMT
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I have a simple question: What capabilities of PDP systems do and
do not depend on the net's actually being implemented in parallel,
rather than just being serially simulated? Is it only speed and
capacity parameters, or something more?

Stevan Harnad
Psychology Department
Princeton University
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