From:	Mongoose m0ng005e@*********.com
Subject:	Headware Memory
Date:	Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:20:54 -0600

:Experiments have been made in 'evolving' chips/gates/circuits. They work
in
:anything BUT binary [as much as anyone knows how they work]. :-)

The articles I've read about that refered to a specific kind of chip
(rather like an EPROM) that could reprogram its internal routing and
logic. While they admitedly did not always function as strict binary
circuits (sometimes it was obseved that faults, voltage leaks, and
induction played an important part in the "evolved" function), they were
still (afaik) operating in a binary environment.

:60 years down the track I can see evolved processors being an important
:technology.

They certainly could be, although (for now) each chip must be
"trained" seprately. Perhaps that is part of what a "chip cooker"
does
during the "cook time" needed for making deckcomponents.
60 years down the road, the SR SOTA in computing is the OTAKU. The
otaku is not a normal binary computing device, but (per R:AS) they seem
awfully interested in teaching norms to mentally perform complex bolian
operations, so as to make more otaku...


Mongoose