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Subject: Re: EFLOP architectures: when and for how much?
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Date: 26 Oct 90 22:48:17 GMT
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In article <1990Oct26.191032.9099@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, gcwilliams@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Graeme Williams) writes...
>In article <1990Oct2.190020.15214@mdbs.uucp> zed@mdbs.uucp (Bill Smith) writes:
>An instruction cannot be executed in a time shorter than the time
>it takes for a light beam to traverse the processing device.
  This may or may not be true.  It is certianly possible for an 'electron'
to pass from once side of a gap to the other side, with no elapsed time.
(Actually the electron is on both sides of the gap, until it is measured--meow.)
I've not seen anything to make me think that zero momentum computing devices
are impossible.  Of course I'm not offering any venture capital either.

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