18 Aug
2002
18 Aug
'02
5:26 a.m.
Brian Chase wrote:
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Ben Franchuk wrote:
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.
Lets not forget the 8080 too.
I was talking about word size being a power of 3.
Ahh yes, all those 9-trit, 27-trit, and 81-trit systems from that
parallel universe in which trinary computing won the day.
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.