2008/7/5 Jecel Assumpcao Jr <jecel at 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
>
>



-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.