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To: OldAIMGuy who wrote (5428)	8/26/1998 8:12:00 PM
From: Jack Park	Read Replies (1) of 18928

You're very welcome Tom. No new processor chip is going to unseat what the wintel crowd is doing. If that would be so, the Mips chip would have done that years ago, but it hasn't. A C compiler for the PTSC chip isn't going to move out into the MS Office domain anytime soon, if ever. Consider this interesting tidbit: a while back, a (apparently) now defunct company Thinking Machines looked for a great chip to put in their massively parallel system. Mind you, it really was a massively parallel system. They eventually chose Sun's Sparc chip. They ultimately (as I understand it) went under, and their chief of the brains group (Danny Hillis) is now out building a giant clock for Disney. I expect he will eventually be a "fellow" at Sun or somesuch. I suspect that the company's going under had more to do with the lack of ability to program it as anything. Remember, it was hot point numero uno in Jurassic Park. My hunch is that it won't be too long before somebody duplicates that computer with the PTSC chip, internally running Jini (Sun's version of the Linda programming system, in Java). Heck, I might do it myself, if I ever get rich enough to do such things :-) Cheers Jack

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