[NTLUG:Discuss] [WTLUG:discuss] Quantum Computer and linux (fwd)

[Chad Foreman]

thought this might be of some interest to y'all

Chad Foreman

st_cforeman at tarleton.edu
farm at endor.hsutx.edu

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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 03:17:57 -0500
From: OBJ Research <research at ottawa.com>
To: Discuss WTLUG <discuss at wtlug.org>
Subject: [WTLUG:discuss] Quantum Computer and linux

A whole new futuristic platform is developing for Linux.

In a newsletter I get on quantum physics applications, the Unitel company
has announced the prototype commercial production of a quantum computer,
based on the manipulation subatomic particle charges.  This is related to
developments for a biological medium for computer circuits.

They have contracted with the University of Illinois at Chicago to build
this, and the quantum logic instruction set will be developed by a UCLA prof
who is also an engineer in Unitel.  Unitel lab tests have already been done
on the theoretical model.

They announce that initially they "will use a Linux port since the Linux OS
is open source and easily transferred to different computing systems.  Since
the Linux kernel is not hardware specific, it will fit Unitel's quantum
computer like a glove."

They go on to project:
"The prototype should prove itself as the world's first efficient quantum
computing system, being many billions of times faster than a conventional PC
and capable of storing multiple terabytes of data."

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