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From: chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon C. Noll)
Newsgroups: net.rumor,net.chess,net.arch
Subject: Re: Ballistic transistors, the Belle II chess machine, & Seymour Cray
Message-ID: <2491@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 00:45:04 EST
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Summary: 

In article <434@x.UUCP> john@x.UUCP (John Woods) writes:
 > > > > >  Of course, the ballistic gate speeds (100 femtosecond range) ...
 > > > > about 10 picoseconds delay per gate ...
 > > > Nope.  Try Josephson junctions.  Gate delays less than 10ps ...
 > > "About 10ps" is compatible with that and both are far from 100fs.
 > > IBM was working on Josephson junctions when I was a youngster.
 > > What is the holdup?
 > Didn't you hear?  They filled their NSA contract shipments, and tore down
 > the assembly line...
The NSA must grab most IBM projects.  I once thought it was only marketing
that sat on many nifty IBM internal projects. :-)  And dont forget the NSA
snarf on the notes/methods behind the 56 bit and 128 bit "DES"!

chongo <The Data Encryption Standard; from now on consider it like Sys V> /\42/\
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