Physics is pretty harsh, and it really likes two-state circuits. One reason is well described in [0]: power consumption P=I*V.. With binary logic, one state mea

Physics is pretty harsh, and it really likes two-state circuits. One reason is well described in [0]: power consumption P=I*V.. With binary logic, one state means V=0 so power is zero; other state means I=0 so power is zero again; any sort of intermediate values means non-zero power consumption, which, when multiplied by a huge number of elements per IC means extreme heat and power wasting. And "existing software" never stopped innovations: we get all-new computation models all the time.. there are FPGAs and IRAMs and transputers and memristors and analog AI, and perhaps even GPU and DSP. None of them can use existing binary software and some of them have non-binary hardware. They don't all work well all the time, and yet people keep innovating and trying to find ways to make them work. And yet no one (outside of hobbyists) works on ternary computers. Physics is harsh. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38984009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38984009