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From: davidy@sumax.UUCP (D.L. Yee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Terradata architecures
Keywords: YNet Bus
Message-ID: <1707@sumax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 90 10:26:45 GMT
References: <211@bilpin.UUCP> <1990Sep28.020717.22610@dhw68k.cts.com> <638@llnl.LLNL.GOV>
Organization: Seattle University
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In article <638@llnl.LLNL.GOV> brooks@physics.llnl.gov (Eugene D. Brooks III) writes:
>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.

Hick!