Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:43:59 -0500 From: Chris Hinsley Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 18:43:59 +0100 Message-ID: <2012100918435931738-chrishinsley@gmailcom> References: <76fe0697-97b3-4844-9b18-b2b86e028d8c@googlegroups.com> <971ca4fc-0ec5-457b-b941-c268c2cc48fe@z8g2000yql.googlegroups.com> <2012100820430026080-chrishinsley@gmailcom> <2012100821052179545-chrishinsley@gmailcom> <2012100823162984153-chrishinsley@gmailcom> <44082c36-9f9e-477f-98dc-39b3252508d4@q4g2000vbg.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Your next supercomputer! Just $99 for 16 ARM cores on a chip. (link supplied) User-Agent: Unison/2.1.9 Lines: 65 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-0Irr+RY+uigSgXLNG/KS2q925JI8hSO5q47/x1Thbcrbzat+EFBpzdOT93XSB6iuPEtxctjn5qkjcoL!9AhydD+GraPHvz1HhNuiQW/yPx7UCLGrJxZgjo83S0JF2kYIDRojsklSRa8HutMxQCN41fI= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3532 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:16104 On 2012-10-09 07:19:35 +0000, Mark Wills said: > On Oct 8, 11:16 pm, Chris Hinsley wrote: >> On 2012-10-08 20:40:23 +0000, rickman said: >> >> >> >> >> >>> On 10/8/2012 4:05 PM, Chris Hinsley wrote: >>>> On 2012-10-08 20:00:22 +0000, rickman said: >> >>>>> On 10/8/2012 3:43 PM, Chris Hinsley wrote: >> >>>>>> Wish it had a bit more local memory, but yep, it looks quite nice. >> >>>>>> Chris >> >>>>> WTF?!!! This thing has more memory on each processor than the GA144 >>>>> has in total! >> >>>>> Rick >> >>>> :) >> >>>> Well I do like the idea of having a system like 64 super T800 trams on a >>>> single chip… call me old fationed but I liked the 1MB tram cards... >> >>>> Chris >> >>> I don't remember the name of the company, but someone was supposed to >>> be working on a combined processor/memory which was more like a memory >>> chip with an embedded processor than a processor with memory.  Once >>> they do that, there is no reason why it couldn't be an array of >>> processors. >> >>> Personally I never quite got the hang of Transputers.  I did work with >>> them for a while though.  Not sure if the system ever got built.  It >>> was for a spook agency.  Massively parallel.  The software people felt >>> the need to implement a full blown networking scheme on the links.  I'm >>> not sure how well that worked. >> >>> Rick >> >> Loved Transputers, the more the better. Very simple to wire up and use. >> Taos ran very well on them, was nice having a PC with 30 T800s in my >> bedroom to play with ! Ah, thoses we're the days… didn't need extra >> heating in that room on chilly nights… :) >> >> Chris- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > Taos... Sigh... Loved that OS... Thank you. Glad it touched a few people. :) It was great fun doing Taos. You'll have me blubbing about the old days in a while... I did post a few press article scans up publicly on Wikipedia under the Virtual_Processor page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Processor Chris