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Oh excellent, I can now reread those massive threads on comp.arch about how NOTHING WILL WITHSTAND THE ATTACK OF THE KILLER MICROS!

For example:

https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=comp.arch&g=14965...

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This is the first time reading those threads for me, being the young'un that I am. That said, the some of the posts in the thread you linked seem prescient. Supercomputers these days are a pile of commodity microprocessors clustered together with high-speed interconnects, just as predicted in that thread.

Yep. I didn't believe those messages when they first came out, but over time they've mostly been proven true.

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