The Future of Computing Is Here

tw · 01-09-2009, 06:59 PM

Michelin is a perfect example. If Michelin preaches a new technology (ie a tire that required no air), then the technology has already been declared defective. Companies that have spectaculor innovations remain quiet until ready to market a production.

What happened to that British massive parallel processor once sold as a peripheral card for PCs? The Transputer executed Occam. Preached as a super computer inside a PC. Hyped, and then gone in ten years.

Interesting are these ideas. What happened to Transmeta that was going to outperform Pentiums using simpler hardware? Great idea until it came time to market the hardware. Then it too never ran as fast as promoted.

All interesting ideas. But the ones that make it typically come without all that pre-hype.

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01-09-2009, 06:59 PM	#3
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	Michelin is a perfect example. If Michelin preaches a new technology (ie a tire that required no air), then the technology has already been declared defective. Companies that have spectaculor innovations remain quiet until ready to market a production. What happened to that British massive parallel processor once sold as a peripheral card for PCs? The Transputer executed Occam. Preached as a super computer inside a PC. Hyped, and then gone in ten years. Interesting are these ideas. What happened to Transmeta that was going to outperform Pentiums using simpler hardware? Great idea until it came time to market the hardware. Then it too never ran as fast as promoted. All interesting ideas. But the ones that make it typically come without all that pre-hype.

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