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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture designer?
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:54:36 -0700, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

> I had this crazy idea of putting cpus right on the ram.

Not so crazy. I can remember things like this being discussed back in the 
1980s. I think the Transputer had a similar idea.

What seems to have happened since is that individual CPUs are being 
matched up with more and more RAM.