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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 17:37:05 GMT
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In article <3997@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> carroll@ssc-vax.boeing.com (Jeff Carroll) writes:
>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?


(Sorry about the double post - Emacs is arguing with the Novell gateway again,
and I barely managed to escape the last edit session without a reboot.)

Actually TMC thinks that they *have* scaled down the CM - down to *one*
of those big black cubes.

From the literature I've seen, MasPars are not as large, and there's at least
one SIMD (WaveTracer) that's about the size of a Firefox workstation.

In short, I think there'll be desktop SIMDs some day soon. Whether they'll be
built by TMC, well... where's barmar?



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

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