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

[Bill Jenkins]

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:38:10 -0500 (CDT)  Chad Foreman wrote:
 
: 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."
 
The little bit I read about quantum computers seemed to say that
information is signified by varying states of the electrons in the
atoms, which are more than two.  I understood the concept to be
non-binary, which would seem to indicate an entirely new operating
system.  Infact, it would seem to require an entirely new machine
language.  

Do I have it all wrong?

Bill Jenkins
bjenkins at iadfw.net