Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?

On 05/04/2025 20:22, c186282 wrote:

Analog ... it still may have certain uses, however for
   chain operations the accumulated errors WILL getcha.
   Might be a 'near' or 'finely-quantitized' sort of
   analog - 100,000 distinct, non-drifting, states that
   for some practical purposes LOOKS like traditional
   analog. So long as you don't need TOO many decimal
   points ......

  Analogue multiplication is the holy grail and can be dome using the exponential characteristics of bipolar transistors
https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data-sheets/ADL5391.pdf

   Finally ... non-binary computing, eight or ten states
   per "bit". Fewer operations, fewer gates twiddling,
   better efficiency anyhow, potentially better speed. But
   doing it with anything like traditional semiconductors,
   cannot see how.

Non binary computing is essentially analogue computing
It is already done in Flash RAM where more than two states of the memory capacitors are possible
Massive arrays of non linear analogue circuits for modelling things like the Navier Stokes equations would be possible: Probably make a better stab at climate modelling then the existing shite.
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