Post B6A5o4A4ISeFwUxDDU by haineux@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B68l1wAEXEf6zvqPLs by NanoRaptor@bitbang.social
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       Macintosh HyperQuadra
       
 (DIR) Post #B68l1wOPgW0LhuTjSC by flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange
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       @NanoRaptor fun fact: Richard Feynman took on this project so he could run Quark Xpress at 1600x1200@60Hz in 24 bit color mode, but Stephen Wolfram refused to support its 256-bit vector extensions in Mathematica because Feynman wouldn’t agree that quantum electrodynamics could be explained with cellular automata
       
 (DIR) Post #B6A5kWqfhG0TkvC84u by Cdespinosa@mastodon.social
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       @NanoRaptor I remember the programming model of the hypercube processors was so abstruse it was affectionately known as “The Conniption Machine” or “Cray-Cray”
       
 (DIR) Post #B6A5o3o5cB4EqKfexU by haineux@mastodon.social
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       @Cdespinosa @NanoRaptor The big hit for The Connection Machine at the MIT Media Lab was that a PhD student spent a month learning how to make text scroll on das Blinkenlights.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6A5o4A4ISeFwUxDDU by haineux@mastodon.social
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       @Cdespinosa @NanoRaptor I wonder if there could be a Connection Machine Simulator built out of GPUs and whether it would be faster than the original…