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From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga: Which replacment OS?/UN*X ??
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Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 00:13:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 22 00:13:49 1987
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<	Oh No!  You're thinking about it all wrong.  The trend of the future
<is to have multi-processor machines to get the power.  For instance, a real
<live machine in existance right now is the CONNECTION machine, made up of
<a large number (65536) single bit processors.  This baby outperforms a 
<Cray II!
<
<				-Matt


Aren't you making your statements just a *little* bit broad, Matt :-).

After all, lots of things outperform a Cray II, including a Cray
XM/P-48. But only at the things they are good at, not the things the
II is good at (vectorizable problems that want a Gigabyte or so of
memory to run in).

The CM will outperform a II (or the XM/P-48) at what it's good at -
cellular automata, twiddling bitmaps, and other things that want to do
the same simple things to a lot of small data elements. But outside of
that area, it don't do so well. The interesting problem is determing
what is really *outside* of that area (fluid dynamics and full-text
document retrieval are known to be inside!!!).

	<mike
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