2008/7/5 Jecel Assumpcao Jr jecel@merlintec.com:

I am sorry to keep repeating myself, but we will be ready before they are. See this old picture of a Smalltalk machine with 1024 processors:

http://cva.stanford.edu/projects/j-machine/

Intel and Microsoft may have forgotten these lessons, but some of us haven't. And having them cough up $20M for a joint research project in multi-core software doesn't impress me very much. I bet just the coffee budget at either of these companies is a lot larger than that.

I can't remember that Microsoft did any research which changed the shape of computing world. The only thing which they do best is buying out successful product/company, putting Micro$oft flag on top of it, and making money from selling it :)

-- Jecel