| From: | Joshua Mumme Grimlakin@**********.com |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Headware Memory |
| Date: | Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:16:01 -0600 |
> 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.
But who is to say that the way that a human brain works when you get right
down to it isn't actually binary. Neuron's firing. Effectively an ON OFF
type of thing. And that my friend would be Binary would it not? On/Off or
1/0
>
>
> cheers
> G
Grimlakin
