<div dir="ltr">well, maybe not, Dave - if you look at some of the qubit parameters in quantum computing that may contain many conventional bits per qubit... :-)<div><br></div><div>v</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Dave Crocker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dhc2@dcrocker.net" target="_blank">dhc2@dcrocker.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 10/9/2016 2:11 PM, Jack Haverty wrote:<br>
> It<br>
> may seem obvious now that most computer makers have disappeared and<br>
> computing is rather uniform; it wasn't then...<br>
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</span>Some things haven't changed.<br>
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The size of a bit has stayed fairly constant.<br>
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So has the number of bits in a bit.<br>
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