[rescue] Mac Appliance

[Dave McGuire]

On August 3, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> >   ...because Microsoft (and Intel to a slightly lesser extent) have
> > set our industry back by a solid twenty years, that's why.
> 
> I think it is more than that.
> 
> Probably closer to 30 or more, considering that:
> 
> CDC 6600 (designed by Seymour Cray) designed in mid-60's had shared memory,
> extensible architecture to 4 or more CPUs - Intel has had a hard time even
> designing chipsets that drive 2 CPUs well; and MSFT is slowly figuring out
> how to write SMP code...

  Good point.  And take ILLIAC IV...64 processors, ~180MIPS, 1GB/sec I/O
bandwidth..in 1965.

        -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD