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From: mhx@iae.nl (mhx)
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Subject: Re: Differentiable Forth
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 17:31:16 +0000
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On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 8:40:16 +0000, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:

> In article <76170601251e921dd20805e084276dab@www.novabbs.com>,
> mhx <mhx@iae.nl> wrote:
>>On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 18:12:31 +0000, Paul Rubin wrote:
>>
>>> mhx@iae.nl (mhx) writes:
>>>> Really? A three-stack Forth with CSP hardware on each GPU core would
>>>> be quite a good fit.
>>>
>>> That's sort of what the GA144 is...
>>
>>The transputers were a better fit. I predict there time will come.
>
> S/there/their/

I think that "there" works too. Like Mark 13:30, make sure predictions
are multi-interpretable.

> At that time I posed:
> " it make no sense to operate cpu's in parallel, unless the CPU's are
> as powerful as they can get."
[..]

The transputers were definitely better than a pc XT at the time, and a
T800 could compete with a 386+387. Given a few thousand of them, and
the right problem, they will be interesting.

As a top-of-the-line CPU burns 250 Watts, 2048 of them need 50kW or 159
Euros/hour.

-marcel