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Questions about the organization and design of computer hardware.

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Ternary processing instead of Binary

A ternary hardware system could about something else than $\{\mbox{yes},\mbox{no},\mbox{maybe}\}$ but using arbitrary $\{0,1,2\}$ or $\{0,1,-1\}$. The main inconvenient about such a thing is that the …
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Logic gates from everyday materials

It is possible to build a Turing machine with "Lego" elements without any electric components, only with pneumatic transmission of energy. The guys who did this used some logic gates with pneumatic bu …
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