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From: uday@mips.COM (Robert Redford)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Survey of architectures was (Re: Proposed architecture characterization)
Message-ID: <2068@mips.mips.COM>
Date: 22 Apr 88 01:44:26 GMT
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In article <7657@ames.arpa>, eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
> This form raises an interesting question.
> 
> I work with a young physicist who asked me what would be interesting machines
> (computers) to learn about.  
> He's curious about what machines have been very influential in the design
> of computers (what machines have been most important).  He's willing to
> read ten references which I have agreed to try and find for him. 

   May be " The connection machine" by W. Daniel Hillis is  a good 
   reference to someone having Physics mindset. There is a chapter in the
   book titled "Why Computer Science is No Good or New Computer Architectures
    and their relationship to Physics".


                                                  ..Uday