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Four years ago, IBM joined Sony and Toshiba to mesh IBM's computer knowledge with the needs of advanced technology manufacturers. Some years ago, the orginal designs put forth in that consortium were found by both Sony and Toshiba to be unacceptable. So IBM, instead of using existing technologies, started from scratch with Sony and Toshiba to define a new architecture. It was announced last Monday.

I am not sure what this new computer does inside. It appears to be many processors that have wide freedoms to access memory. Memory is structured in terms of objects. Beneath the whole system is a massive DMA transfer system. Been watching this project for some month now and still cannot determine what it does.

So where will this processor first appear? Advanced workstations? Supercomputers? Scientific simulators? No. Playstation III.

Who gets the best computers (other than supercomputers)? The kids need better graphics.

Misguided? Well Unix (now better known as Linux) was created so that he could progam a chess game.