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From: yann@ai.toronto.edu (Yann le Cun)
Subject: Re: Whay has commodore droped the transputer
Message-ID: <88Aug29.235507edt.661@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
References: <989@dsacg3.UUCP> <1544@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 88 01:14:47 EDT

In article <1544@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root) writes:
>  One wonders what
> the transputer might have become if fielded five years ago.  Today
> (with 20 MIP RISC processors) it just isn't worth a second glance.

but the transputer *IS* a *cheap* 20 MIPS RISC processor, well, make 
that 10 MIPS and put two of them.

Yann le Cun                            yann@ai.toronto.edu