Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On 11/12/2024 16:43, John Ames wrote:

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:51:47 -0500
"186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
 

Better innovate SOMETHING, otherwise we're gonna see 'peak computing'
when it's become clear we need thousands of times that for the Really
Cool Stuff.

 I've long been of the opinion that things're gonna get Real Interesting
when Moore's Law finally his the wall and "throw a beefier rig at it!"
is no longer a viable pitch for any "your X isn't delivering Y fast
enough for project Z!" problems.
 

We have already hit it.
Hence the proliferation of multiple cores.
Which works for multi-user and multi-threaded operations, but not necessarily for linear single thread code.
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