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Re: AppleCrate II

On Aug 10, 2:57 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> This is much more transportable 'Crate than the AppleCrate I, and
> it has a "master" machine built in, which I find convenient.  The
> audio subsystem is also much improved.  And, of course, it has 16
> slave processors!

More than a Playstation 3 !

> The whole point of this exercise is to enable experiments with
> parallel programming, which is now the clear direction for the
> future of software.  If you have 3 or 4 Apple II's around, you
> can run NadaNet on them and experiment too--they don't have to
> be assembled into an AppleCrate!  ;-)

If you continue at this rate you'll have a Borg Cube
in a few years! "Resistance is futile!" ;-)

bye
Marcus