Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ll1.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!mgnetp!ll1!cej From: cej@ll1.UUCP (One of the Jones Boys) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Re: Smallest possible memory element Message-ID: <352@ll1.UUCP> Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 23:06:56 EDT Article-I.D.: ll1.352 Posted: Sat Jul 13 23:06:56 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Jul-85 01:24:42 EDT References: <350@sri-arpa.ARPA> <454@linus.UUCP> <9045@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: No Place Special Lines: 22 >>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. ... >> Eric > > there is a problem here. according to Heisenberg, reading a file >would irreversibly garble it. > > -phil That's no problem. Core memory is a destructive-read meory device, also. All that's required is that you write the data back after each read operation. -- disclaimer: I'm the one looking for the control on the T.V. to turn up the intelligence. The one marked brightness doesn't seem to work. ...ihnp4!mgnetp!ll1!cej Llewellyn Jones ----------------------------------------------------------