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- From: bcc@lanai.Eyring.COM (Brian Cooper)
- Subject: Re: Utterly bizarre idea for Atari
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.233720.6633@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 23:37:20 GMT
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- >In article <1992Aug15.043618.17054@news.csuohio.edu> max@madnick.cba.csuohio.edu (Max Polk) writes:
- >>This is an utterly bizarre idea.
- >
- >Nope.
- >
- >>Here it is in a nutshell: a parallel processing Atari microcomputer
- >>featuring a set of 68000 microprocessors, sold at low cost yet
- >>featuring high technology.
- >>
- >>It's about time that someone tries this out in one form or another
- >>for reasonably-priced small computers, and Atari could pull it off.
- >
-
- While we're at it, let's revolutionize the automotive industry by combining
- 8 used Volkswagons (each might cost $400) to create a car with the power of
- a Ferrari, for only $3200!! Yeah!
-
- Parallel processing machines have been the dream whose idea has never quite
- come, perhaps because it is easier to create the hardware than to write
- software that effectively uses it. Wasn't the Atari implementation of the
- transputer intended to be a super-powerful multi-processor machine? How
- many of those were sold?
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