DARPA's varied approaches to developing early parallel computers| www.freaktakes.com
This piece is noticeably longer (twice the length) than the others on this Substack.| www.freaktakes.com
One day when I was having lunch with Richard Feynman, I mentioned to him that I was planning to start a company to build a parallel computer with a million processors. His reaction was unequivocal, "That is positively the dopiest idea I ever heard." For Richard a crazy idea was an opportunity to either prove it wrong or prove it right. Either way, he was interested. By the end of lunch he had agreed to spend the summer working at the company.| longnow.org