From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 17 09:19:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA18113 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 09:19:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA18107 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 09:18:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org [127.0.0.1] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.60 #1) id 0wHtsa-0003wf-00; Thu, 17 Apr 1997 10:17:48 -0600 To: osmanb@acm.org Subject: Re: First place. Cc: drew@sml.co.jp, Justin Wolf , "'cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com'" , Golan Klinger , "rsacrack@vex.net" , "hackers@freebsd.org" , "deschall@gatekeeper.megasoft.com" In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Apr 1997 08:20:55 EDT." <3354C427.8D76BBFA@rpi.edu> References: <3354C427.8D76BBFA@rpi.edu> <199704160738.QAA02522@mx.sml.co.jp> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 10:17:47 -0600 From: Warner Losh Message-Id: Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <3354C427.8D76BBFA@rpi.edu> "Brian T. Osman" writes: : computers! That is NOTHING! NOTHING! Think about the cmoputing power : that : Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Motorola, Apple, anyone could get together!!! : They just don't want to right now, because it would only prove that they : are in a position to conduct industrial espionage. I have been hearing for years about multiple cpu designs going on at various government labs. I recall that Sandia had an experimental Pentium MP machine with either 1,000 or 10,000 processors (my memory is failing me) in it with private and shared memory for each (it is hard to tell for sure, cine it was a popular press report). This key thing is just the ticket for something like this. The picture they had in the paper showed a "rack" sized box (that is 19"wide, by 8' tall by about 30-40" deep) full of backplanes and such. I don't know how much that press report got right, but it does make you think. Warner