I just realized what this reminds me of. Anyone remember the Intel 860 from a couple of decades ago? A team of engineers dumped backward compatibility and inefficient traditional design and went for pure blazing speed, and boy did they get it, the "supercomputer on a desk" marketing bumf was telling the unadulterated truth.
And it died. It wasn't well suited for running off the shelf DOS/Unix software, and the technical community wasn't big enough to pay for the 860's upkeep. Now we've got Cell and GPGPU, and similarly they dump backward compatibility and inefficient traditional design to go for pure blazing speed... But this time gamers want crunch and have money to pay for it, so it seems - *knocks on wood* - there is a market big enough to sustain the new designs. Sometimes there is progress after all ^.^ ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
