Another Ranganathan

I saw the name and had to share. From the NY Times. Microprocessors are close to reaching the limit on how small they can get and a new approach is needed. Enter Ranganathan:

"Parthasarathy Ranganathan, a Hewlett-Packard electrical engineer, offers a radical alternative to today’s computer designs that would permit new designs for consumer electronics products as well as the next generation of supercomputers, known as exascale processors."

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Another Ranganathan

1. Bytes are for use.
2. For every processor its bytes.
3. For every byte its exabyte.
4. Save a byte for someone else.
5. The computer is a growing organism.
6. I'm sorry Dave , I can't do that.

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