From: Dale A. Raby (daleraby_at_tds.net)
Date: Wed Sep 15 2004 - 12:06:17 PDT
Probably a lot less reliable. That's why the industry went with
binary... though with today's better quality tech available... it would
be interesting to speculate. Maybe somebody will build one some day...
though its probably not a project that could be built in my blacksmith
shop... or anybody's basement.
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 14:01, Josef Chessor wrote:
> > OK, I take it all back... now can we argue some other OT? Maybe the
> > points of a heavy projectile/low velocity vs. light projectile/high
> > velocity? Or maybe what might have happened had industry gone with a
> > decimal rather than binary machine language? How 'bout Ford vs. Chevy?
> > Maybe better to avoid OT's in the future all together... that's what I
> > intend to do.
>
> Wasn't ENIAC decimal? I seem to recall reading that. It was either
> ENIAC, or one of its immediate successors. What would Newton be like
> with a decimal-based processor I wonder...
>
> ;)
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