Brian Chase wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Ben Franchuk wrote:
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>>Lets not forget the 8080 too.
>>I was talking about word size being a power of 3.
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> Ahh yes, all those 9-trit, 27-trit, and 81-trit systems from that
> parallel universe in which trinary computing won the day.
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Using -1,0,+1 has advantages, but nobody has come up with a
single bit memory storage for it. It takes two bits of data
to store it.
Here is a few links on it how ever.
http://www.trinary.cc/
http://www.americanscientist.org/Issues/Comsci01/Compsci2001-11.html
(Don't expect more)
PS. this is on topic because a FEW trinary computers have been built.
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> There are always software emulators, too.
But emulators have lousy front panels. They don't have the feel
of the big iron. Also a PDP-8 in modern techology would really tell
if your latest intel product is fast or not.
Received on Sun Aug 18 2002 - 12:26:01 BST