Thinking Machines Corporation is an American company manufacturing mini-supercomputers . It was founded in 1983 by Daniel Hillis and Sheryl Handler with the aim of converting Hillis's doctoral dissertation on the original mass-parallel computer architecture into a commercial product called Connection Machine . The company went bankrupt in 1994. The remainder of the company, including its software and hardware departments, was later purchased by Sun Microsystems .
Literature
- W. Daniel Hillis. The Connection Machine. - Mit Press, 1986. - 190 p. - ISBN 0262081571 . (English) - Hillis's dissertation on mass-parallel architecture
- The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines (English) - an extensive article about the history of the company
Links
- Product documentation on bitsavers.org