Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!amdcad!sun!exodus!exodus-bb!khb From: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgroup) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: UNIX Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 90 06:25:14 GMT References: <11613@alice.att.com> <4868@trantor.harris-atd.com> <4876@trantor.harris-atd.com> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun MegaSystems Lines: 20 In-reply-to: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com's message of 14 Nov 90 20:46:56 GMT In article <4876@trantor.harris-atd.com> chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes: ... Ed Borasky's Top Ten Computer Architectures: 9. Intel's Touchstone Delta -- the best MIMD design to date. ... How is the Touchstone Delta _qualitatively_ different than the original Cosmic Cube by Sietz et al ? It certainly is faster, and has more processors (and snazzier ones at that) .... but the other machines listed seem to be attempts to chose seminal machines .... else one would expect the S/360 to be a 3090 (or whatever), the XMP with a YMP, etc. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Keith H. Bierman kbierman@Eng.Sun.COM | khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM SMI 2550 Garcia 12-33 | (415 336 2648) Mountain View, CA 94043