Re: TI-H: hey (cont.)
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Re: TI-H: hey (cont.)
so, it would only go at the speed of light in a superconductor?
Nick wrote:
> electron speed depends on the medium it travels in (resistance) and the
> voltage being used, which is why overclockers bump up the voltage of the
> CPU- it increases the speed the electrons travel through the chip.
> electrons travel much slower than the speed of light- not sure of the actual
> number.
>
> --nick
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Per Jonsson" <poj@sundsvall.mail.telia.com>
> To: <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 4:39 PM
> Subject: Re: TI-H: hey (cont.)
>
> >
> > If i remember my Physics correctly electrons travel at the speed of
> > light.. (I think the speed of light is something like 300 000 km/s)
> >
> > /PoJ
> >
> > On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Adam Kavan wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > 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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