> On Feb 18, 2022, at 12:16 PM, Lee Courtney <leec2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Paul,
>
> What was the timeframe for the MPP?
I thought late 1980s. Just did some searching, which turns up some manuals for
the "DecMPP 12000". And a trade press article that says it's a rebadged MasPar
machine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasPar says that MasPar was founded by ex-DEC
chip VP Jeff Kalb. He took a design done at DEC, for a massively parallel
machine inspired by the Goodyear MPP with some changes. DEC decided not to
build that so MasPar did and DEC then resold it. The description sounds
vaguely familiar. The manual I downloaded says it has 1024 cores per board,
and up to 16 boards. Neat.
paul
