heuser.marcus{at}freenet.de wrote:
> On Aug 10, 2:57 am, "Michael J. Mahon"  wrote:
>> This is much more transportable 'Crate than the AppleCrate I, and
>> it has a "master" machine built in, which I find convenient.  The
>> audio subsystem is also much improved.  And, of course, it has 16
>> slave processors!
> 
> More than a Playstation 3 !

But it is definitely a "playstation"!  ;-)

>> The whole point of this exercise is to enable experiments with
>> parallel programming, which is now the clear direction for the
>> future of software.  If you have 3 or 4 Apple II's around, you
>> can run NadaNet on them and experiment too--they don't have to
>> be assembled into an AppleCrate!  ;-)
> 
> If you continue at this rate you'll have a Borg Cube
> in a few years! "Resistance is futile!" ;-)

You're the second person to point out the resemblance to a
Borg cube...Maybe I should have stopped at 14 boards--which
would be closer to cubical.  ;-)

-michael

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