Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!tallis.dec.com!jbell From: jbell@tallis.dec.com (Yow! Am I consing yet?) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: RE: Connection Machine Message-ID: <8712150542.AA10881@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 15 Dec 87 08:41:00 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 12 >Posted by: decwrl!hplabs!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!ames!ll-xn!husc6!endor!reiter > >The Connection Machine is usually presented as 64,000 1-bit SIMD processors >hooked up with a hypercube router. Who is to say for sure? How is this different from a single processor that happens to have a 64k-bit word size, some slick masking commands, and some hellacious shift intructions? -Jeff Bell