Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 07:44:54 09/26/01
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On September 25, 2001 at 14:06:14, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On September 25, 2001 at 12:58:00, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > >>On September 25, 2001 at 11:57:44, Albert Silver wrote: >> >>>Multi-cpu machines are very far from being the standard, and while they may >>>certainly be accessible (pricewise) in some countries nowadays, they are a very >>>very small minority. Most people think in terms of more MHz or GHz as opposed to >>>more cpus. >>> >>> Albert >> >>I fully agree with this statement. There is no question of Multi-CPU machines >>being standard. Most people have PC with single CPU and I cannot imagine that >>this "standard" will change in the next few years. >>Regards >>Kurt > > >Hold on to your hat. I'd expect that within the next _five_ years you will >see single chips with two processors on them. _that_ will change the way >computing looks, once and for all... I don't doubt that that is the future, more processors onto a single chip, but i doubt whether in 5 years we will be able to affort such processor blocks. Let's bet on safe and say 50 years instead of 5 ...
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