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From: carroll@ssc-vax (Jeff Carroll)
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Subject: Re: RISC vs. CISC -- SPECmarks
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Date: 17 May 91 17:25:48 GMT
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In article <_R9B1S2@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
>> Well, you _could_ rediscover the Connection Machine.
>
>Is it reasonable to think about scaling the CM down to a desktop workstation?


	Well, I don't think you'll see TMC do this (they really conceive of
themselves as being in the *super*computer business), but there are people
around who might build "mini-SIMDs".

	In particular, AMT has retargeted the DAP SIMD for the embedded
systems market (and, as TMC did, they glommed on some floating-point chips
in the process). Rumor has it that the large defense contractor E-Systems
has chosen the DAP for implementation in GaAs.


-- 
Jeff Carroll
carroll@ssc-vax.boeing.com

"Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives." - Socrates