Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!rochester!PT.CS.CMU.EDU!andrew.cmu.edu!jk3k+ From: jk3k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joe Keane) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Why build TF-1 if you have its uniprocessor chips? Message-ID: Date: 5 Apr 88 10:07:55 GMT References: <12176@brl-adm.ARPA> <1988Mar11.215238.976@utzoo.uucp> <11437@duke.cs.duke.edu> <4297@hoptoad.uucp>, <30@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University Lines: 9 In-Reply-To: <30@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> In article <30@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM>, malcolm@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM (Malcolm Slaney) writes: > I'm sure that lots of other people can come up with uses for a machine with > 32k processors. How about one hell of a game-playing (read `chess') machine. You don't even need game-specific hardware. Of course it'd make it all that much faster... --Joe