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Article #2847Re: VERY LARGE main memories: crypt
From: Peter S. Shenkin
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1986 01:59
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1986 01:59
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In article <uiucdcsb.5600054> robison@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU writes:
>
> ...There are quantum
>limits for the minimum power of switching devices[2].
>
>[2] "Physics of Computational Systems, " in *Introduction to VLSI Systems*,
> Mead and Conway, 1980.
This has been the subject of long debate. Rolf Landauer (I think) and someone
else reviewed the subject in Scientific American about a year ago. I believe
the bottom line is that everyone (i.e., even people who publicly supported the
opposite postion) now believes that there are no such limits.
Peter S. Shenkin Columbia Univ. Biology Dept., NY, NY 10027
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!cmcl2!rna!cubsvax!peters From: peters@cubsvax.UUCP (Peter S. Shenkin) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: VERY LARGE main memories: crypt Message-ID: <540@cubsvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Sep-86 21:59:54 EDT Article-I.D.: cubsvax.540 Posted: Sun Sep 14 21:59:54 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Sep-86 07:31:05 EDT References: <15505@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <uiucdcsb.5600054> Reply-To: peters@cubsvax.UUCP (Peter S. Shenkin) Organization: Columbia Univ. Bio. CG Fac., NY Lines: 15