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To: Paul V. who wrote (31155)	6/24/1999 10:37:00 PM
From: Katherine Derbyshire	Read Replies (1) of 70976

>> The software companies must require 128, 256, and up to operate the computers or the hardware companies must just stop making the lower end chips. << I know what the problem is! The memory guys increase quadratically: bits per unit area. The software guys keep on putting one line of code after the next, linearly. If they were to all shift to massively parallel architectures, they could increase memory requirements exponentially (memory of processor A raised to the (N processors) power) and stay ahead of the chip guys forever! Yeah, that's the ticket! Ooops, sorry, Thinking Machines tried that, didn't they? The software overhead choked the programmers and investors before it choked the processors, right? Don't mind me, I'm just feeling a little punchy this evening.... Katherine

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