Talk:Connection Machine
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[edit] Where are they now?
What happened to Hillis Handler and their company? Are they still in business? Dan100 12:36, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)
- Danny Hillis went on to found Applied Minds, and I believe Sheryl Handler started a data-mining company called Ab Initio. Thinking Machines is not in business -- its software and hardware assets and patents were acquired by several companies. --Zippy 01:37, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Performance?
Any benchmarks available?
[edit] Key Contributers?
On the Thinking Machines page there is reference to notable contributers. Would such a reference be relavent here? Something like Among the notable contributers were Stephen Wolfram and Richard Feynman.
- “Besides Danny Hillis, other noted people who worked for or with the company included David Waltz, Guy L Steele, Jr., Karl Sims, Brewster Kahle, Bradley Kuszmaul, Charles E. Leiserson, Marvin Minsky, Carl Feynman, Cliff Lasser, Alex Vasilevsky, Doug Lenat, Stephen Wolfram, Eric Lander, Richard Feynman, Mirza Mehdi, and Jack Schwartz.”
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- I just looked at Danny Hillis's book, the Connection Machine, and there are a number of people mentioned in the acknowledgements beyond the above list. --Zippy 20:18, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] *Lisp major post-hardware product?
The main article says that *Lisp was the major product (left) for Thinking Machines once it stopped making hardware. I'd like to know more about this. I would have guessed that its other, more popular languages (C* and *Fortran, I think) would have had more users and more requests for support. Is this not correct? What was the history of *Lisp as a product after the last CM-5 rolled off the line? --Zippy 20:17, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
The statement that *Lisp was the major product left is wrong. *Lisp was no longer of major interest to Thinking Machines at the time the company folded. -- A *Lisp developer.
[edit] pronouncing * "star"
maybe it is correct to say that "*lisp" is pronounced "star lisp", but I think it's a weird way to put it. opinions? kzz* 18:22, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
- It strikes me as an entirely natural way to put it.--Prosfilaes 15:17, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
