Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site linus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!linus!meister From: meister@linus.UUCP (Phillip W. Servita) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Smallest possible memory element Message-ID: <454@linus.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 14:15:45 EDT Article-I.D.: linus.454 Posted: Fri Jul 12 14:15:45 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jul-85 08:21:54 EDT References: <350@sri-arpa.ARPA> Reply-To: meister@linus.UUCP (Philip W. Servita) Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA Lines: 14 > > Given the technology to do it, the smallest a computer memory >could be made would probably be an electron, in that a spin in one >direction would be a one and a spin in the other direction would be a >zero. Don't ask me how you would go about building a computer around >this, but give computer technology about 10 years to find a way. > > Eric there is a problem here. according to Heisenberg, reading a file would irreversibly garble it. -phil