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To: Steve Porter who wrote (26083)	4/20/1998 4:34:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) of 33344

Steve, Your view of the future of software is somewhat different from mine. I see that operating systems are beginning to develop high bandwidth embedded threads (such as speech recognition and JVM) which are an inherent part of the OS. These threads are controlled and scheduled by the OS. Applications programmers will not have to concern themselves with the hardware architecture. Coarse grained parallelism on IA64 will be obtained via compilers and the OS. This may take a few years, but it will happen. I want a computer which responds instantly for all apps. In 1974 I waited 2 hours for my Fortran deck to turnaround on a Univac. In 1985 I waited endlessly for the simplest DOS apps to execute. In 1989 Windows 386 was a total dog. Now I wait too long for Java apps. Recent advances in process technology make it possible to put multiple CPU's on a single die. I look forward to having a real time overseas 3-D video conference on my wristwatch PC with the entire conversation captured, translated and entered into a word processor in four different languages. Why not? Scumbria

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