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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: RISC vs. CISC -- SPECmarks
Message-ID: <_R9B1S2@xds13.ferranti.com>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation
References: <1991Apr22.044553.16805@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1991Apr27.012655.6508@rice.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 May 91 12:16:38 GMT

In article <1991Apr27.012655.6508@rice.edu>, preston@ariel.rice.edu (Preston Briggs) writes:
> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
> >Ah, the old Von Neumann botleneck. Time to apply RISC design techniques to
> >memory subsystems.

> Well, you _could_ rediscover the Connection Machine.

Is it reasonable to think about scaling the CM down to a desktop workstation?
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