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Re: Name of parallel Z80 computer? [message #393622 is a reply to message #393613]

Sun, 19 April 2020 20:59

Joe Pfeiffer
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ERSHC <ershc123@invalid.invalid> writes:

> On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:13:19 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
>> sigma.research@gmail.com writes:
>>
>>> Long time ago, ( 1980's? ) there was
>>> a parallel processing multi Z80 CPU
>>> computer. I forgot the number of cpu's it had. Maybe 16k, 32k??
>>> Does anyone remember the name of this
>>> computer and the company that sold it?
>>>
>>> -- curious
>>> -- William Gallant
>>
>> There was a research machine called ZMOB -- 256 Z80s in a ring.
>>
>> https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-96868-6_ 263
>
> If not for the "Z80"s I'd think Thinking Machine Corps's Connection
> Machines. The CM-1 could handle up to 64k processors.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine

True, anything with the number of processors he's talking about back
then would have been one of the bit-serial SIMD machines. CM-1, MPP...

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