Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Memory vector processor? Keywords: vector Message-ID: <11918@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 19 Aug 88 14:56:06 GMT Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady,NY Lines: 26 Cringely's column in the Aug 18, 1988 InfoWorld has an interesting item in with the usual babeling... quoted without permission: The only insanely great technology I know about that was anywhere even close to Boston was in Oxford Connecticut, where a company called Oxford Computer has developed dual-ported hybred memory that does its own floating point conversions. It's damn the 68882's, full speed ahead; we're talking about $120 worth of RAM that can do 40 *million* 3-D vectors per second. When was the last time you wanted to do something like that? ================================================================ Aside from my inclination to question 99.7% of anything in this column, does anyone know anything about this? "hybred memory"?? Does any of this represent existing technology, or even something which can be done in a lab? I usually read this column for entertainment, but this looks interesting if it bears any relation to reality. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me