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I do wonder if in this day and age our school kids are ever given an explanation of what happens under the hood
There's a lot of limitations to today's binary computers ... all the most powerful ones can really do is move the contents of one register to another ........ quantum computing, where a bit can be a 1, a 0 or both at the same time in 2 different places is where the future action is ...
@Phil_aka_Pip couldn't agree more .... we are just spending money upgrading not to get things done faster but to try to offset how bloated the software is
1s and 0s...
64 at a time (per core for most CPUs) and about 3.5 billion times per second
So even a cheap PC could look at nearly a trillion binary bits per second.
As for what they do with the bits depends on whether it's a Harvard or Von Neumann, big endian or little endian, RISC or CISC...
Then that's only the machine itself... So then you need some form of BIOS so the hardware can talk to the software...
Then an Operating system, which could be Unix, BSD, Windows, GnuLinux...
But... Fundamentally... Yes. 1s and 0s
There's also microprocessors vs microcontroller (arguably a computer but very different)...
Hope that simplifies things
It's very fast for some complex maths... And probability type problems but is bad at absolute answers.
It also needs to be as close to absolute zero as possible, in a vacuum, with vibration damping and many layers of emf shielding... The sort of things that will make it virtually impossible to miniaturise... So it won' b the future for us
We're talking about an operating temperature in the 80mK range... No matter what you make it out of you still need mega cooling
In normal computers... To an extent... But there are physical laws which apply to computers - changing a 0 to a 1 requires energy... So even reducing each transistor to a single atom won't eliminate heat issues completely... There is a fundamental limit (can' rrecall what it is, but at a certain number a CPU would require more energy than is in the observable universe... It's not even silly numbers from where we are - with double complexity every couple of years it wouldn't take forever...)
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
dead = 0
in binary coded hex, the aliens can have 16 possible states that number 0 through to F
this is because they are aliens and therefore really odd
this was supposed to lead to more leisure time for the worker because the same amount of work could be done more quickly and easily...
thinking back to all of those points that were made back then..
"like fk" is what I thought at the time...
and "like fk" is what I continue to think today..
computers enable people to put far more effort into achieving less..
and also find innovative ways to fill their lives with absolutely nothing of real value
they are then able to use spreadsheets to illustrate this graphically and power point to deliver a presentation on it
So Clarky how much time have you spent programming your FX rigs vs the time you have saved tap dancing with pedals on stage
then spent years never having to touch it again and just go play the gig
maybe I need to spreadsheet and power point my Axe config... lol..
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
All of that free time started to disappear when people could fax things over, became worse when "I'll bike a disk over to you" followed and completely disappeared with "I'll email it over, let me have your revised version back before close of business".