"Many of the early ideas were motivated by observations of what was easy to implement in the hardware rather than what was easy to use" (see http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=show...)
i.e parallel programming was always an afterthought. To architects, building a parallel system was viewed primarily as a hardware hurdle to overcome.
"Many of the early ideas were motivated by observations of what was easy to implement in the hardware rather than what was easy to use" (see http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=show...)
i.e parallel programming was always an afterthought. To architects, building a parallel system was viewed primarily as a hardware hurdle to overcome.