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nwallin on Dec 10, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Transputer

Ternary is one of those things where the theory looks beautiful until you need to start putting circuits together. Then it's kinda shitty.

afiori on Dec 10, 2019 [–]

This is a matter of physical implementations. Using normal transistors ternary is horrible, but there are other physical medium where ternary is more natural (often using magnetic field).

lonelappde on Dec 10, 2019 | [–]

Can you make 5nm CPU features with magnetic fields, even in principle?

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