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From: thompson@dalcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Optical Computing (Not optical communications)
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Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 12:46:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Apr 29 12:46:00 1987
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Reply-To: thompson@dalcs.UUCP (Michael A. Thompson)
Organization: Dept. of Math., Stats & C.S., Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
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	Two or three years ago, I read a article in Scientific
    American (I don't remember the exact issue but if anyone is
    interested I can look it up) about these optical transistors that
    someone had developed. The thing that impressed me is that not
    only would you get the high speed of light in a computer built of
    these things but you could also get parallel computing by using
    different colors of light.
-- 
Michael A. Thompson, Dept. Math, Stats, & C.S., Dalhousie U., Halifax, N.S.
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