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PDP-11 clones are nice but I've always wanted more information on the Russian balanced ternary designs, how far they got going along that path. https://en.wiki

• leeter 5y ago
  Apparently pretty far, I've found various sources for why funding was cut from "The west was going binary so that was the order of the day" to "The space race". What was interesting was the hardware description I could find wasn't vacuum tubes but rather ICs and allegedly some sort of logic based on "Ferrite cores and diode ladders" which was apparently a major thing as it was vastly cheaper than transistors (super expensive at the time) or vacuum tubes (expensive and unreliable). How much of this is true or just what's on the russian computing museum's website I don't know. But the concepts aren't dead: https://hackaday.com/2014/10/07/hackaday-10th-anniversary-non-binary-computing/ https://hackaday.com/2014/10/07/hackaday-10th-anniversary-no...
• alexvoda 5y ago
  Maybe we will see some of that in a future version of Thunderbolt with PAM-3 encoding: https://www.anandtech.com/Show/Index/16858?cPage=3&all=False&sort=0&page=1&slug=intel-executive-posts-thunderbolt-5-photo-80-gbps-and-pam3-then-deletes-it https://www.anandtech.com/Show/Index/16858?cPage=3&all=False...