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From: cej@ll1.UUCP (One of the Jones Boys)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Re: Smallest possible memory element
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Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 23:06:56 EDT
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>>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
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