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Re: The EVIL Metric system taking away my HERITAGE
Posted By: Darien, on host 207.10.37.2
Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2000, at 12:55:46
In Reply To: Re: The EVIL Metric system taking away my HERITAGE posted by Sam on Tuesday, April 4, 2000, at 08:23:22:

> Heh. Thinking about it, they'd probably be considered Imperial units, because there's eight bits to a byte, not ten. I challenge metric Dictators everywhere to build a 10-bit computer and have it be as efficient and cost-effective as a computer built around powers of 2. Ha. :-P

Hrm. -Darien envisions the insane number of errors a base-10 computer would be prone to and shudders-

Frankly, there just ian't a very good reason to make a base-10 computer. I heard about a company awhile back making a base-16 computer, but they haven't been able to get it to run very well - it runs hot and has a *lot* of errors. But they're probably still trying.