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In article <10078@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael Zehr) writes:
>Professor Daly (sp?) of MIT has been saying something along those lines
>for a couple years.  instead of having a whole bunch of memory chips
>with one path to a fast CPU and have a cache to prevent slow accesses,
>take each of those memory chips, halve the amoune of memory on them, and
>put a CPU on it.  you no longer have a memory banchwith problem, because
>the memory and CPU are on the same (small, easy-to-make) chip.  instead
>of putting a cache on the chip (you don't need one), put a
>communications circuit to transfer data to the other chips.

	Sounds a lot like a transputer... how is it different? (other than
being implemented in a more modern process)

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