I didnt think about the specialized, diagnostic gear. That couldve priced me out. Far as your other idea, a Distributed, Shared Memory setup was one of my pote

I didnt think about the specialized, diagnostic gear. That couldve priced me out. Far as your other idea, a Distributed, Shared Memory setup was one of my potential applications. I was looking at Beowulf clusters and old MPP systems trying to find ways to get more CPU's with large RAM and simplified programming. I found quite a few software implementations of DSM model. Infiniband and Myrinet were main thing in networking. So, PCI idea was partly about connecting them with something that already had DMA. That at least led me to NUMAscale's products for scaling AMD systems.