heuser.marcus@freenet.de wrote:
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 !
But it is definitely a "playstation"! ;-)
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!" ;-)
You're the second person to point out the resemblance to a Borg cube...Maybe I should have stopped at 14 boards--which would be closer to cubical. ;-) -michael AppleCrate II: An Apple II "blade server"! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."