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From: rwt@ohm.york.ac.uk (Richard Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Data Flow Computers
Message-ID: <1990Oct18.093954.23521@ohm.york.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Oct 90 09:39:54 GMT
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in article <1073@iceman.jcu.oz>, cpca@iceman.jcu.oz (C Adams) says:
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> I am doing some work for uni on dataflow computers, and am wondering
> what is the current state of development on them.  Has anyone built
> a working computer, if so how fast did it run?  Were all the
> problems solved?
> 
> I know putting extra complexity into hardware is not popular at
> the moment with all the RISC chips, so I gather dataflow computers
> never really took off.

For references look at Manchesters work (Gurd et al) amongst others
NEC produce a dataflow chip, the Image Pipelined Processor (PD7821)
- we have a simulator for the system. If anyone wants more info
or bibliography then mail me direct.

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|   Dr Richard Taylor                                                  |
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|   University of York                                                 |
|   York Y01 5DD                                                       |
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