of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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Connection Machine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_machine) even got the groovey LEDs :-) The CM itself was very heavily influenced by the ICL DAP in the 70s. I also remember one of the home computing mags in the 80's giving details of how to build a farm of Zilog Z80s to compute the Mandelbrot set in parallel. More power to their elbows. Eventually we will hit a point where bespoke hardware is required as we finally hit the wall on Moores Law. Even language specific processors are making a comeback (OK not much but someone is touting a "Java Machine") dreamy memories of the Japanese 5th Gen projects :-) It's just more fun having a bit of variety and a bit of asynchrony will keep a programmer on their toes.