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End of The Von Neumann Computing Age?
olafo writes "Three recent Forbes articles:
Chipping Away, Flexible Flyers and Super-Cheap Supercomputers cite attractive alternatives to traditional Von Neumann computers and microprocessors. One even mentions we're approaching the end of the Von Neumann age and the beginning of a new Reconfigurable computing age. Are we ready?"
Jeez Louise, computers suck. Their operating systems suck, their interface sucks, and the amount of space they have sucks.
Too bad we aren't talking about a real change that would make computing enjoyable or better yet unnoticeable.
Does Steve Forbes strike anyone else as 'not quite human'?
I have been pwned because my
From the office of Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (aka Baghdad Bob):
"Infidel coalition microprocessors should surrender for face the wrath of the mighty Ali."
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
They have no idea what they are talking about. File this one with those saying the internal combustion engine was dead way back in 1918 and the Popular Science issues dating back to the 1940s that periodically herald the new age of the airship and the advent of the personal helicopter.
Ooops. Almost forgot the Seqway scooter.
TACO TACO TACO TACO
Jon Katz tosses teh salad.
You win the award for most gayest first post attempt ever.
EVER!
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
From the office of Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf :
BSD isn't dead.
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
Surely you mean "gayest", or "most gay", ducky?
Surely you mean "gayest", or "most gay", ducky?
You sure do know alot about gayness.
Oh dear this is a company with 16 people lead by a guy who is a self confessed futurist to quote the article. [i]Gilson insists his dream machine actually works. "I live in the future," he says. "Most people are pessimists who live in the present or the past." [/i] I don't know about the rest of you but I don't think that these chips, already in use in numerous single function applications (satellites) are going to be on any machine I have access to in the near future (say 10 years). It also leaves you with what a problem that everyone who's screwed around programming for to long, Ala the program which re-writes its own code, here we need software (more likely an OS) that re-writes its own hardware architecture in what becomes a very real sense. Think code compiled in real time for P4 architecture will a fraction of a second later be running on a Athlon. Never the less SGI, NASA and a few others (the NSA I suspect) are buying this but I would tend to believe that this is because they cant afford not to. I don't think anyone is crunching serious or mission critical data with these.
Bow down and worship my polysyllabilic non-sequitur!
pleeeeeease?!!!
Goddamn slashdot is fuckin' slow!
Can they run Linux?
No shit.
http://saveie6.com/