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Re:MMIX 2009: A RISC computer for the third millennium (2011) by meanderer on Friday June 09, 2017 @04:35AM (#14520034)
Quantum computers could work in very different ways, though.
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Re:MMIX 2009: A RISC computer for the third millennium (2011) by soberhoff on Friday June 09, 2017 @05:03AM (#14520139)
So do cars. Neither have any bearing on TAOCP.
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Re:MMIX 2009: A RISC computer for the third millennium (2011) by harry8 on Friday June 09, 2017 @07:15AM (#14520594)
Cars don't do much in the way of general purpose data transforms for you.

In my day we had computational complexity, and we LiKED it! So say all of us who claim Knuth as our homeboy if quantum computers ever work better switched on than off...

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Re:MMIX 2009: A RISC computer for the third millennium (2011) by lokedhs on Saturday June 10, 2017 @03:33PM (#14528807)
> Cars don't do much in the way of general purpose data transforms for you.

And neither does quantum computers.

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