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I wonder if twistor memory would have been lighter in mass? It was developed by Bell Labs, and mostly found use in (surprise!) telephone switches. It could be m
by flyinghamster 7y ago
I wonder if twistor memory would have been lighter in mass? It was developed by Bell Labs, and mostly found use in (surprise!) telephone switches. It could be made in both read-only and read/write forms, and its manufacture could be heavily automated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twistor_memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twistor_memory
- kens 7y agoTwistor memory looks like one of those technologies that was not quite competitive with core for one reason or another and never really caught on. As far as twistor ROM, it used a small permanent magnet per bit, so I expect that its density was worse than core rope.