> James Rogers wrote:
>
> >
> > Sigh...The good old days...
>
> yeah to right you are. :)
>
> > Yes and no. What operating system are you going to use on the SMP system?
>
> i don't really care... :) something will come along. I waited 10 years
Linux now supports SMP. Not perfect yet, but it will. (At least it
should, if one uses its usual dynamics for an estimate).
Nevertheless: SMP is a very poor kind of parallelism. As very often, PCs
ontogeny is recapitulating the philogeny of supercomputers. Any bets, when
we will see non-SMP parallelism on an average desktop machine? (it can be
a component of a subsystem).
I say 5-7 years. Your estimates?
> for something like the first Fairlight to come along at an affordable
> price. I can probably wait 10 more years ;)
ciao,
'gene