20 Sep
2016
20 Sep
'16
7:06 a.m.
On 16 September 2016 at 14:51, David Bridgham <dab at froghouse.org> wrote:
On 9/15/16 23:13, ben wrote:
Huh? But there have been several -- the Russian/Polish SETUN was the
first committed to hardware.
http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/setun.htm
But there have been others:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer
One chap is even trying to build his own:
https://hackaday.io/project/1043-base-3-ternary-computer-from-scratch
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PS: Ternary arithmetic I can understand, but
Ternary Logic needs Mr
Spock to figure out.
Ternery logic would seem to be useful for implementing an asynchronous
design instead of, say, dual rail encoding.