From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Overflows (lisp fixnum-bignum conversion)
Date: 1997/04/07
Date: 1997-04-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01bc43ae$811f1680$3ef882c1@xhv46.dial.pipex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1997Apr7.130018.1@eisner
Larry Kilgallen <kilgallen@eisner.decus.org> wrote in article
<1997Apr7.130018.1@eisner>...
[...]
> [...] Disks I use hold 1 GB, while others
> can hold 4 or 9 GB. 64 bits allows me to address the contents of about
> 2,000,000,000 of the 9 GB drives. How many disk drives have ever been
> built ?
Already IBM scientists (at Boca Raton, is it?) are building prototype '3D'
computers - which use laser holography within a block of a very special
material which switches its angle of polarisation very fast at a certain
precise temperature - which promise to be able to store the equivalent of
2^64 bytes of information easily (probably a lot more). Such computers
would certainly have the potential for outsmarting humans by several orders
of magnitude. This is actually true. Sleep well!
Nick.
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1997-04-02 0:00 What Happened While I Wasn't Looking? Charles H. Sampson
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-05 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-05 0:00 ` Overflows (lisp fixnum-bignum conversion) Clayton Weaver
1997-04-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-04-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-06 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Joel VanLaven
1997-04-12 0:00 ` Architectures Nick Roberts
1997-04-07 0:00 ` What Happened While I Wasn't Looking? Charles H. Sampson
1997-04-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Overflows (lisp fixnum-bignum conversion) Jon S Anthony
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1997-04-08 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
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