At 01:25 PM 1/19/99 -0500, you wrote: > >"Fred A. Miller" wrote: >> >> http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/pcwtoday?ID=9375 >> - > >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. lunaslide * PGP key->pgpkeys.mit.edu port 11371 * * * * * * * When you say Windows NT, I don't exactly think of hot chicks. * -Lin-Ann Ching * * * * * * * * - To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
