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People did some pretty cool things with the C64. Back when I was in college (88-91), two professors in the Math department built an interface that hooked up 4
by protomyth 9y ago
People did some pretty cool things with the C64. Back when I was in college (88-91), two professors in the Math department built an interface that hooked up 4 C64 computers so they could run parallel stuff. I guess it was the cheapest solution to the problem.
- walkingolof 9y agoThats weird, you could get a (Atari 1040 STFM) 1M 8Mhz 68000 at that time for less than those 4 C64:s
- matt_the_bass 9y agoMaybe the point was to explore methods of parallelism?
- rexreed 9y agoPerhaps they already had them on hand? I have 2 C64 machines still!
- protomyth 9y agoYou and matt_the_bass are right. They had 4 on hand and wanted to explore parallelism. I think they tried to buy some transputer boards first without success then figured they could afford the parts to build the interface. I’m told it was pretty fun to program.