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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
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Subject: Re: Japanese Josephson breakthrough?  Implications?
Message-ID: <1989Dec18.172927.1475@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 89 17:29:27 GMT
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In article <33818@mips.mips.COM> mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) writes:
>In article <1989Dec18.025843.4435@Neon.Stanford.EDU> wilson@carcoar.Stanford.EDU (Paul Wilson) writes:
>  >One of the newsbytes groups (clari.nb.trends) has an article
>  >that says the Japanese are claiming to have built a working
>  >Josephson computer. 
>  >
>
>
>I don't mean to rain on the JJ parade; merely to suggest that the "computer"
>alluded to above may not be a 32-bit machine with floating point,
>virtual memory, and MS-DOS compatibility.   :-)
>-- 
That is NOT the point. There is ONLY one point: whatever it is,
it is JAPANESE!!!

What is the state of the art in AMERICAN JJ computers?

Doug McDonald