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...among many data processing units. The departure from the "von Neumann architecture," named for its founder, will enable programmers to avoid a "bottleneck." The rewards could be substantial since the "von Neumann bottleneck" has served as a traffic jam which severely restricts the flow of information through the one processor...
...without drawbacks. Without proper programming, the separate units could slow to a "deadly embrace" if they must await information still passing through another unit. Experts in parallelism have nevertheless claimed to be approaching a processing speed that exceeds the fastest theoretical rate possible with a "von Neumann" processor by a factor...
...leap up from his lunch to table-hop at Newick's restaurant in Newington, N.H., Hart's state coordinator, Jeanne Shaheen, smiled, "A month ago, we'd have to have twisted his arm before he'd do that." Lacking the cash to buy a word processor, his campaign is sending follow-up letters written in longhand. Volunteers have mailed out 30,000, and expect to post 20,000 more...
...Personally, I like the small size, but a lot of people think it's just too small for day-to-day use as a word processor," Dvorak says...
...great word processor, but it can only work on 20 pages at a time," Markoff says...