Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Subject: Re: SMP vs. MPP
Organization: IDA Center for Communications Research, Princeton
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 17:14:09 GMT
Message-ID: <3et4c3$ojm@runner.ccr-p.ida.org>

Melinda Shore <shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu> writes:
> KSR went under because of marginal business practices by a few of
> their execs, not because of problems with the technology.
> ....
> The performance of individual processors is nothing to write home
> about and i/o performance is really pretty terrible, but I'd much
> rather see them get it right first and then get it fast.

I believe that a large part of KSR's problems are due to the fact that
people who actually had money to spend didn't agree with your attitude:
they would rather have it be fast than "right."

                                        David desJardins
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