>The hypercube's 15 minutes of fame arrived when 'connectionist'
>computing theorists were exploring various ways of sharing a computing
>task between numerous samples of what began as a device of limited power -
>the microcomputer.
I wouldn't have said that.
In fact,
--) The people who built the first hypercube computers are not well
described by the label "connectionist theorists".
--) Connectionist theories don't require the hypercube architecture and
don't particularly favor it over other parallel architectures, of which
there are many. And on the other side of the same coin, programming a
hypercube doesn't require a connectionist approach.
--) The nCube company was founded in 1983 and is still in business today,
considerably more than 15 minutes later.