Sigh. The MP-64 was going in that direction. When I left Silicon Valley, I posted a ( then new ) internal picture of an Intel 386 die on my office door at Cray Research and said " This will be our competition ". Work on a massively parallel follow-up to the multi-processor Y-MP was begun. We hired and I worked directly with Marv Bausman ( he holds several patents from the fiber optic clock we made. Note that my co-workers Ed Priest and Doug Paffel are names on that patent. ) and had most of the bleeding edge technologies solved when JR started cutting our funding and  Seymours funding too.

I'm hardware. Chris Hsung was software and hardware architecture. Skip was " are we able to make it? "