Re: TI-H: hey (cont.)

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Re: TI-H: hey (cont.)


analog computers are very efficient.  They use op amps with variable voltage
and some digital stuff combined.  They just are more expensive to build and
no one supports them.

--kaus

----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Kavan <akavan@cse.unl.edu>
To: <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: TI-H: hey (cont.)


>
> Actually I believe that computers really can't understand anything but 0
or
> 1, or actually low voltage / high voltage, unless of course you want to
get
> into quantum computing.  At least I can't think of a multiple voltage
> transistor.  And binary is "real math" its just based on a different set
of
> numbers :)  As far as the speed of electrical vs light I beleive tat
> electical pulses travel at almost the speed if not the speed of light.
> Though I definatly could be wrong there.
>
> --- Adam Kavan
> --- akavan@cse.unl.edu
>
> At 02:46 PM 1/26/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >Actually, the reason we have the 0 1 system isn't because computers can't
> >understand them, its because of storage. A computer would be able to
> >differentiate among different amounts of electricity or whatever. A hard
> >drive or a CD can only understand "magnet there or magnet not there" or
"hole
> >there or hole not there"  So if we had computers like that, we would have
no
> >storage, which would suck. :)
> >
> >In a message dated 1/26/00 1:37:44 PM Central Standard Time,
npfs@cybcon.com
> >writes:
> >
> ><< as i said stupid finals.
> > anyway as i was saying even though we would have to totally redesign
almost
> >everything would it be possible to have instead of a binary code but a
system
> >based on tens (red 0, blue 1, yellow 3, etc.)  a digital system is good
for
> >now but it has it's drawbacks of computers only unnderstanding 0 and 1
not
> >even actual math.  and plus light pulses are faster than eletrical pulses
and
> >copper wires and others arn't exactly perfect.  well let's see how this
> >goes...
> > Bernard >>
>
>
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