non-binary hardware
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.uucp
Mon Sep 12 13:28:04 AEST 1988
In article <3473 at phri.UUCP> roy at phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> I vaugely remember reading about a new RAM technology in which each
>memory cell stored one of 4 different voltage levels. This was converted
>on-chip to two convention binary bits. Unfortunately, I can't remember
>anything about it...
4-state *ROMs*, not *RAMs*, are already in use to a modest extent. It's
one more way of getting somewhat higher memory density, and apparently it
does work all right. Nothing but the on-chip circuitry ever sees it.
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