transputers again was The dissolution of Commodore 2905

Well your problem was that you were using a 68030.

Workloads are a different issue from single app time to solution.

I was not part of the group which was using meshes and hypercubes. We did have several i860 architectures.

I used 2 of the BBN 88K architectures and knew the guys who did the Unix port. Never used a 29K, but AMD is just down the road from me. You are concentrating too much on CPUs and not enough on memories and over all system balance. That was the problem with the chip makers (and you can look at the lit how they responded, and they are still relearning lessons from the mainframe and super vendors it's choice).

It was awesome having a 123 processor TC2000, one could access more memory with an 88K than stand alone 88Ks, but that merely accentuated the von Neumann bottle neck on serious problems. So you throw a few more CPUs. On GBs of memory, that's well intended, but not a serious enough factor. And that's why they are no more.

Now I have to find a BBN machine (I have a report of one is sitting in a field collecting grbutt) for the Museum. Again, I want the whole system, not merely the CPUs. I am also hoping to get an iWarp and the rest of the DARPA vehicle as well.

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