Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Josephson Junction processors
Message-ID: <1989Mar16.172935.22162@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1196@twitch.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 17:29:35 GMT

In article <1196@twitch.UUCP> rvk@twitch.UUCP ( Bob Kline) writes:
>...perhaps a longer term worry is that the Japanese devices have
>tens of thousands of devices on them, so larger systems can
>apparently be built and adequately cooled.  what breakthroughs and
>techniques were uncovered that IBM missed I don't know, but it
>is believable that the Japanese now possess a viable technology
>that our biggest and best couldn't see through.

Let's not get too excited about this just yet.  IBM had some impressive
experimental hardware too.  IBM did *not* abandon its big JJ project
because it couldn't be made to work in the lab, they abandoned it because
they felt it couldn't be made to work well enough to be a commercial
success.  It is still possible that they were right.
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