2 Jan
2007
2 Jan
'07
8:25 p.m.
William Donzelli wrote:
..enough for a 1-bit serial adder with carry flip-flop, perhaps?
There was at least one production
parametron-based computer:
I have a Japanese parametron logic trainer. I think there are 12
parametrons in it, so it is not too useful. I think parametrons died out fast because all other
logic forms were
much easier to implement as speeds increased. Once the things get up
into the MHz region, tuning and phase shifting became real issues.
Nobody wants to tune logic - leave that to the radio guys.
I was speculating along those lines as well, that as a system got more
complex trying to track phase shift through all possible paths in the
system would become a nightmare. I know the CDC6600 had individual wires
cut to specific lengths, but this seems like a problem of another
magnitude.
On the same note I was going to say that it would give another meaning to
'tuning the system'.