Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:39:02 04/21/05
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On April 20, 2005 at 23:55:57, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On April 20, 2005 at 15:46:00, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On April 20, 2005 at 05:32:24, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >> >>>On April 20, 2005 at 02:48:05, Dann Corbit wrote: >>> >>>>On April 20, 2005 at 01:35:32, Robin Smith wrote: >>>> >>>>>On April 18, 2005 at 21:05:10, Dann Corbit wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>I doubt very much if Moore's law will quit in less than 100 years. >>>>> >>>>>You can't be serious. >>>> >>>>Serious as cancer. >>>> >>>>Not that we'll be using ICs in 100 years. They will look like relays would look >>>>today for a computing machine, I am sure. >>> >>>Moore's law has to do with feature size and if you do a calculation assuming >>>Moore's law holds out for 100 years, you will perhaps determine the feature size >>>to be smaller than a quark, which is rather improbable. >> >>Currently, ICs have two dimentions. If you move to another dimention, you gain >>a lot more real estate. >> >>>What is relevant is function and capacity. For example, moving from base 2 logic >>>to base 4 would double function and capacity while leaving feature size the >>>same. BTW, isn't DNA base 4? If so, not an unreasonable idea I would say. >> >>I saw an analysis once that said base e was the densest possible storage. >> >>Base 3 is closer than base 4, so it might be more dense. Can't say for sure, as >>I do not recall the analysis exactly. > >I wasn't able to find anything about that. I didn't try that hard, however. If >you can find a reference, it would be nice. http://www.americanscientist.org/content/AMSCI/AMSCI/ArticleAltFormat/20035214317_146.pdf >As the following link shows, MultiValued Logic (MVL) is not only an active area >of research, it is possible to have it used in a computer anyone can buy. It >says that 4-valued logic is being used in some of the higher capacity DRAMs: > >http://web.it.kth.se/~elena/PAPERS/NORCHIP99b.pdf > >> >>It should be easy enough to create base 3 circuits, since you would have +, 0 >>and - as natural states.
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