Talk:ICL Distributed Array Processor

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Mil-DAP

I wasn't connected to this side of DAP development but I have a hazy recollection the Mil-DAP was used in aircraft for side-looking radar - this can be used to spot submarines by analysing the waves they cause on the surface. Dmcq 18:23, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sites

Listing the numbers of systems made and possible site locations could be historically useful. Terming a site as "classified" can be mentioned for site of sensitivity. Hardware is preserved at the Computer History Museum. 143.232.210.38 (talk) 18:32, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Production figures

The number of systems made in comparison to competitors would be interesting. 198.123.57.167 (talk) 19:57, 29 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How is this the first MPP?

According to the dates in this article, it appears design and implementation of the DAP followed the ILLIAC IV by two or more years. On what basis does this article claim precedence? Maury Markowitz (talk) 19:56, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It says commercial as in salesmen selling it from their portfolio rather than built by and for a university. Dmcq (talk) 20:36, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That is not clearly true in the article as it stands.

The LEAD claims that the first machine delivered to a university, and it appears from the context that it is referring to the prototype.

The delivery date is referenced to a cite that doesn't mention anything about this. I did find this date in a FAQ document, it does not clarify.

The original cite does imply, however, that ICL did not commercialize the DAP, and that this did not occur until it was with CPP.

A more likely document found here states the date was in 1980.

If either of these are correct, it still post-dates delivery of the Goodyear MPP, which was moved to Goddard in 1977 according to the same FAQ, and is mentioned as "late 1970s" in this book. However, other references state it is some time in 1983, 1984 and 1982.

The confusion may lie in the fact that the STARAN was being sold throughout this period. It used a 4 x 256 1-bit PE, which makes it "massive" if the same can be applied to the DAP's 64x64 1-bit array. By this measure I believe it is safe to say then that the STARAN predates the DAP.

Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:42, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]