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From: brooks@physics.llnl.gov (Eugene D. Brooks III)
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Subject: Re: Terradata architecures
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Date: 30 Sep 90 15:48:18 GMT
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In article <1990Sep28.020717.22610@dhw68k.cts.com> stein@dhw68k.cts.com (Rick 'Transputer' Stein) writes:
>I'd be pretty amazed to see a massively parallel computation system built
>up with busses.  That contention problem is a giant killer, and that's
>why message-passing scalar systems are kicking butt, even if they are
>a bit tougher to built software.  Shared memory systems are technological
>dinosaurs.
Buss based system are technological dinosaurs,
shared memory systems (in general) are not.