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Don't keep the knowledge of the transputer to yourself!

Has anyone seen the article in June 88 issue of IEEE
Computer by Rayfield and Silverman on the Armstrong
Multiprocessor (Brown multiprocessor). They claim
reconfigurability (or re-pluggability) and extensive
support for message passing as being unique features.

Their heart appears to be in the right place, but they
are suffering enormously from their chosen hardware
solution, and getting unnecessarily negative results.
They seem to be totally unaware of the transputer based
machines.

If anyone knows these guys, would they like to interact
with them, and introduce them (in the nicest possible
way) to observations such as that linear scalability has
been demonstrated for a wide range of applications for
systems containing 100's of transputers, that the
performance is two orders of magnitude faster, that the
engineering is orders of magnitude simpler, and that
there is a proper programming model.

Possibly some correspondence in Computer open channel
would also be a good idea.