Very interesting, thanks. Thinking Machines was much in the news back then and that idea of multiple relatively simple but highly interconnected CPUs was "in t

Very interesting, thanks. Thinking Machines was much in the news back then and that idea of multiple relatively simple but highly interconnected CPUs was "in the air." I had gone to the trade show to look at computers for the research group where I was a student - physical science, not computer science. We ultimately bought something more conventional which was obsolete in about 18 months when DEC workstations started appearing. It wasn't until I was firmly midcareer that I realized our (actually my) limitations had to do with lack of imagination and not any intrinsic limitations of the PC/XT/AT machines of our time.