Will be great if those 3-digits processors ever become commercialized. Or, more likely, if anyone dares to write an OS and create a programming language for 3-digits processing units...
Chances are, instead of trying to convert to a trinary (?) system, they'll just use 3rd state from 2 wires, as two states for an extra bit as it were - does that make any sense? :)
@wrabbit - it makes sense, its like having another layer of digits, doubling the capacity of same size binary nanowires
@shinigami, maybe it doesnt need a new everything (os, language, processor) since its a storage device, maybe all it need is an adaptor that do the converting from trinary to binary and vice versa, like how we convert binary to decimal and vice versa, like an IDE to SATA converter, maybe it can be called IDE to nonawires, or SATA to nanowires.
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Shinigami @ Jul 3rd 2008 11:50AM
Will be great if those 3-digits processors ever become commercialized. Or, more likely, if anyone dares to write an OS and create a programming language for 3-digits processing units...
In 3 words - not gonna happen xD
wrabbit @ Jul 3rd 2008 12:06PM
Chances are, instead of trying to convert to a trinary (?) system, they'll just use 3rd state from 2 wires, as two states for an extra bit as it were - does that make any sense? :)
BratPAQ @ Jul 3rd 2008 12:40PM
@wrabbit - it makes sense, its like having another layer of digits, doubling the capacity of same size binary nanowires
@shinigami, maybe it doesnt need a new everything (os, language, processor) since its a storage device, maybe all it need is an adaptor that do the converting from trinary to binary and vice versa, like how we convert binary to decimal and vice versa, like an IDE to SATA converter, maybe it can be called IDE to nonawires, or SATA to nanowires.
Kyakko @ Jul 3rd 2008 1:00PM
that wouldn't be possible since one tri-"bit" can't be in two states at once.
erislover @ Jul 3rd 2008 1:35PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun