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Re: Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust

On Dec 17, 11:22 am, Tim Smith <reply_in_gr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On 2007-12-17, ness...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <ness...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > "I'm skeptical until I see something that gives me some hope," said
> > Gordon Bell, one of the nation's pioneering computer designers, who is
> > now a fellow at Microsoft Research.
>
> > Mr. Bell said that during the 1980s, he tried to persuade the computer
> > industry to take on the problem of parallel computing while he was a
> > program director at the National Science Foundation, but found little
> > interest.
>
> > [Straight from NSF to Microsoft---how convenient.]
>
> Huh?  It was many years after NSF that he went to MS.

Yes, you're right.

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