2 Sep
1999
2 Sep
'99
8:42 a.m.
I never heard of octal based systems, but I know a lot of work was done on
trinary computers (3 rather than binary 2 states - on, off, and inbetween).
Everything I heard said they were too expensive, etc.... Try searching the
web under "trinary computer"?
Jay West
2 Sep
2 Sep
9:45 a.m.
"Jay West" <jlwest(a)tseinc.com> wrote:
I never heard of octal based systems, but I know a lot
of work was done on
trinary computers (3 rather than binary 2 states - on, off, and inbetween).
Everything I heard said they were too expensive, etc.... Try searching the
web under "trinary computer"?
Jay West
Hi
While not to practical for the real guts of a computer,
many parts of current computers use multi level coding.
Many flash memories use 3 and 4 levels for storage cells.
LCD's are almost all multi level multiplexed.
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