This article[0] appeared on HN the other day. I think it describes Richard Feynman using exactly the approach your talking about with an early distributed/paral

This article[0] appeared on HN the other day. I think it describes Richard Feynman using exactly the approach your talking about with an early distributed/parallel architecture. See the eighth paragraph of the "An Algorithm For Logarithms" section. [0]: http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-and-connection-machine/ http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-and-connection-mac...