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Is this the machine that Richard Feynman was working on? I believe he was hired by TMC to work on some topological problems for a massively parallel computer a
by omneity 4y ago
Is this the machine that Richard Feynman was working on?
I believe he was hired by TMC to work on some topological problems for a massively parallel computer around a similar time.
- lifeisstillgood 4y agohttps://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine/ https://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machin... >>> We were arguing about what the name of the company should be when Richard walked in, saluted, and said, "Richard Feynman reporting for duty. OK, boss, what's my assignment?" The assembled group of not-quite-graduated MIT students was astounded. After a hurried private discussion ("I don't know, you hired him..."), we ...
- omneity 4y agoFascinating! Thank you for the reference. The Connecting Machine looks like a nerd dream. Massively parallel with a high level language and API. I believe we can see Symbolics OS in the OP PDF. I wonder what went wrong with the vision for it not to come to fruition. Hopefully not just a “boring” technological limitation.