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In article <BzIxqo.C90@dscomsa.desy.de>, hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker) writes:
 
- But it is the paucity of software that prevents anything more novel than
- floating point accelerators for standard Von Neumann machines gaining wide
- acceptance.
- 
- If you want to discuss hardware, you cannot ignore the software aspect.
....

And unfortunately that goes very deep and does certainly not stop at the
operating system. Once you deart from a von-Neuman architecture, many
respected truths are no longer applicable. Take the well-known suggestion
that a binary chop is the fastest way to serch an ordered list. If you have
two processors (and a few more performance parameters ...) you will find
the fastest search splits the population at the 62/38 % rather than at 50/50.

Once you design hardware that requires people to redefine and rethink 
their problems before they can use of it you have some selling to do.

                                       Thomas

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