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Re:Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989) by mark_l_watson on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @08:13AM (#13763395)
Both of a friend's parents worked on the Manhattan Project. Feynman was a character.

I was fortunate to be able to write code for version 1 of the Connection Machine (that was the SIMD device) and I would prototype code on my Mac in Star Lisp. Good times that I am grateful for.

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Re:Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989) by howfun on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @09:40AM (#13763933)
Write more about this. A lot of people will find it very interesting.
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Re:Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989) by mpfundstein on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @10:40AM (#13764523)
+1
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Re:Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989) by yardie on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @01:19PM (#13766574)
Please, go on. I've been fascinated with Connection Machines ever since I saw one at a university auction. Which also had plenty of SGI gear and Next slabs as well.
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Re:Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989) by mark_l_watson on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @11:00PM (#13771295)
The CM 1 had fast I/O throughput and all processors executed the same instructions (SIMD, single instruction multiple data stream).
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Re:Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989) by wslh on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @11:41AM (#13765261)
Waiting for the long version of your experiences. Thanks for sharing.
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Re:Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989) by leephillips on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @12:43PM (#13766139)
Me too, at the Naval Research Laboratory. Did you use C*? (This was a version of C designed for the CM, with parallel operators.)
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