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Not too fringe of an idea, IMO. The idea of tri-state logic is fairly ubiquitous in analog electronics. Also, was a family of Soviet ternary computers[1] that w
by woadwarrior01 3y ago
Not too fringe of an idea, IMO. The idea of tri-state logic is fairly ubiquitous in analog electronics. Also, was a family of Soviet ternary computers[1] that were fairly competitive with their contemporary binary logic based counterparts.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
- Tomte 3y agoOkay, let me more precise: the fringe idea in Iota was to insist on ternary logic implemented in software on binary logic hardware.
- woadwarrior01 3y agoI didn't know what IOTA is and had to look it up. And I agree with your assessment, I suspect their decision was motivated by marketing reasons and not technical reasons.
- int_19h 3y agoSetun is very heavily mythologized as "groundbreaking", but the reality is that it was never a true ternary machine on hardware level. They tried to make it work, but couldn't, so in the end each hardware trit was implemented as a pair of ferromagnetic bits.