Francis Cianfrocca wrote: > On 2/11/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb / cesmail.net> wrote: > > > >> 1. I've been here before -- at the point where general-purpose SISD >> architectures ran out of steam and special-purpose machines abounded. I >> spent ten years working for a company, Floating Point Systems, that >> *made* special-purpose machines. There's a whole generation of people >> out there, myself among them, that ended up finding other things to do >> when the general-purpose SISD (and *CISC*) machine known as the Pentium >> essentially wiped everything else off the map. So I view the current >> "trend" to multicore systems and more dreams of massively parallel >> computers becoming mainstream as only a temporary thing ... a swing of a >> pendulum to one extreme ... general purpose SISD machines will be back! > > > > Are you expecting another round (or more) of massive improvements in > uniprocessor performance? > > I can think of a number of possiblities -- Lets really get out there___ 1) Multivalue Logic (Nasty) 2) Extremely Long instruction words 3) Massively Deep look ahead Threads However, Most Likely -- General Multi-core Processors with Various Specialized Processors. > >