Oh there's lots of prior-art way before Crays (B5500, CDC6700 - mid sixties for example) Again the idea of sharing main memory between more than one CPU is ve

Oh there's lots of prior-art way before Crays (B5500, CDC6700 - mid sixties for example) Again the idea of sharing main memory between more than one CPU is very old (and arguably 'obvious to an ordinary practitioner of the art' who had taken a few comp sci classes) I mentioned nVidia/Sony et al because they're the ones selling multicore CPUs right now and have the most to lose to this sort of predatory troll