From:	Geoff Skellams geoff.skellams@*********.com.au
Subject:	Headware Memory
Date:	Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:49:42 +1100

On shadowrn@*********.org, Starrngr@***.com wrote:
> If its computer, its binary. Computers dont work any other way THAN
binary.
> everything in a computer is reduced to 1's and 0's. Its also a
feature of
> addressing, which is also stricly binary. It doesnt matter how big a
pulse
> is, it will still normaly be grouped in a binary function. 2,4,8.
Somethings
> just dont change.

CURRENT computers all run in binary. Who's to say that sometime
after the crash of '29 they don't come up with some completely new and
radical architecture that isn't binary?
I seem to recall that the basis of the computers in SR is a
simple biological structure. At the moment, I cannot for the life of me
remember where the hell I read this (although "Blood in the Boardroom"
seems to be floating to the surface of my consciousness). If computer
systems are based more on the way the human brain is structured, then it
isn't going to be binary. It will work by the neurons firing and
triggering responses in other neurons.

cheers
G
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