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Subject: RE: what's next for the linux kernel?
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 21:11:52 -0700
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From: "Martin Fouts" <Martin.Fouts@palmsource.com>
To: "Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton" <lkcl@lkcl.net>
Cc: "linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org 
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Luke 
> Kenneth Casson Leighton
> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 1:31 PM
> To: Joe Bob Spamtest
> Cc: linux-kernel
> Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel?
> 
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 12:36:20PM -0700, Joe Bob Spamtest wrote:
> > The point being: If and when the industry switches its focus to 
> > highly parallel systems, Linux will shortly follow.
> 
> 
> personally i find that i like a bit of a run-up and/or 
> advance notice  of major paradigm shifts.  on the basis that 
> other people might also  want to know, i initiated this 
> discussion yesterday and it seems like  forever already! :)

There's no real need to hurry.  The industry isn't going to shift its
focus to highly parallel systems in the near future.  Highly parallel
systems have been around since the 60s, (when 'highly parallel' meant a
lot less than it does today, but was still parallel compared to typical
von neumann machines of the period.)

It's been fifteen years since I last played with them, and there's not
much chance that they'll get interesting in the near future.

They'll never go completely away, because there'll always be niches
where they make sense, but they'll never break out into the mainstream,
because those niches tend to get smaller, not larger, over time.
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