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To: Lee who wrote (37127)	4/8/1998 2:56:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) of 176387

OT OT Lee - I spent many years doing process control, designed a lot of multiprocessor systems in the 70's and 80's. It's demanding work and people who can succeed in realtime process control can pretty much do anything in the computer business. The reason multiprocessors have not gotten much traction is probably Gordon Bell's rule # 29, general purpose MIPS will always be cheaper than special purpose MIPS in a general purpose market. Every attempt to bring out special devices (some examples which come to mind are special LAN adapters and other IO subsystems) have broken when either the capability gets absorbed into the operating system, or the general purpose components get fast enough that no one will pay the premium for the special purpose stuff. But there are some notable exceptions, which are now part of the 'industry standard' including a lot of the Intel I2O initiative. USB and 1394 peripheral standards are also steps in this direction.

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