At 01:25 PM 1/19/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>"Fred A. Miller" wrote:
>> 
>> http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/pcwtoday?ID=9375
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>
>How long will it be before we see 
>"lightwave computers", which use optical switches,
>motherboards that run with microscopic fiber-optic
>channels, and have a laser to keep it flowing. 
>
>Running at Terra-hertz speeds.
>
>Our copper-based boards will be antiques eventually.

Researchers are already experimenting with photon based computers, using
the wave characteristic of energy rather than the particle (electron) as a
logic gate activator.


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