Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mcnc.mcnc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcnc!jnw From: jnw@mcnc.UUCP (John White) Newsgroups: net.arch,net.micro,net.bizarre Subject: Re: Re: This is serious! Message-ID: <707@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 16:59:31 EDT Article-I.D.: mcnc.707 Posted: Sun Aug 11 16:59:31 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 00:28:46 EDT References: <2264@amdcad.UUCP> <1350@uwmacc.UUCP> <202@calma.uucp> <287@kitty.UUCP> Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC Lines: 13 Xref: linus net.arch:1479 net.micro:10203 net.bizarre:399 > Reminds me of some of my weirder brainstorms, like a substance made of a > crystal of charged black holes (charge opposed gravity). Won't work, of > course, unless they're black-hole monopoles (:->). But boy talk about a rigid > structure! Also you could dope it with bigger holes & make a hell of an optical > computer... run real slo, though, because of the time dilation near the event > horizons. I once had an idea where a ferro-electric substance is used as the gate insulator of a dynamic ram (possibly over a very thin gate oxide). Then it won't have to be refreshed and it would be non-volital. Also, a slow, wafer size version could be made and used as a super-fast hard disk. (bad rows mapped out like bad sectors on a regular hard disk.) - John N. White