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From: chuck@dartvax.UUCP (Chuck Simmons)
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Subject: Re: I don't believe your statements about multiprocessors
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 18:29:14 EDT
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> ...But for a shared-memory machine, the only
> reason to build a multiprocessor instead of a uniprocessor is to make it
> cheaper....
> 
> Of course it is not always possible to build a uniprocessor as fast as one
> would like...
>
> Brian Reid

Seems like that makes 2 very good reasons to build hypercubes and friends.

Chuck