Word: processin
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...success of the Connection Machine marks several milestones in computer science. One is the widespread acceptance of the parallel-processin g approach to computer design. "This was a watershed year for massive parallelism," says Gary Smaby, a supercomputer analyst at the Smaby Group in Minneapolis. There are more than half a dozen start-up companies selling parallel- processing computers of one sort or another. Both Digital Equipment and IBM, the two largest U.S. computer manufacturers, have endorsed the concept (IBM by forming a joint venture in September with Thinking Machines), and even Cray Research has begun work on a massively...
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