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From: davecb@yunexus.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The Sixth Generation
Message-ID: <10587@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 90 18:31:07 GMT
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henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>More likely, actually, just faster silicon.  Silicon is really pretty
>good stuff, and it's getting more development money than all its would-be
>competitors put together.

  MIT is happily working on quantum-effect devices, seeing if
	1) thay can be made to do things predictably, and
	2) if they can make computers out of them.
The latter is harder, methinks: they speculate about cellular automata
in place of von Neuman machines.

--dave
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