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Ten Weirdest Types of Computers

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the fringe-computing dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention that New Scientist has a quick round-up of what they consider to be the ten weirdest types of computers. The list includes everything from quantum computers, to slime molds, to pails of water. "Perhaps the most unlikely place to see computing power is in the ripples in a tank of water. Using a ripple tank and an overhead camera, Chrisantha Fernando and Sampsa Sojakka at the University of Sussex, used wave patterns to make a type of logic gate called an "exclusive OR gate", or XOR gate."

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  1. Re:It ain't ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    For the great majority of Slashdot's readers these days, if you gave them a pencil and paper and asked them to demonstrate an xor of two numbers, say 6 and 12, they wouldn't know where to start. Time was when this wasn't so, and not coincidentally, Slashdot was a far more interesting place.

    Now we just have a majority of opinionated, non-technical idiots and children who once installed Linux screaming about technology they know absolutely nothing about.

    For a while there, though, it was great.