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Quantum Transitors Trumpeted! Contributed by mojoski on Wed Feb 18 20:08:01 1998 EST [Technology] From the bragging-on-my-bro Dept In what can only be described as a huge advance in quantum transitior technolgy, The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have demonstrated a method of making these devices stable enough for potential use in computing applications.

The Sandia quantum transistor is not the first to use a quantum mechanical effect called ``tunneling'' to compute. Experimental quantum tunneling devices were first made nearly a decade ago.

But Sandia's is the first to be made using common manufacturing techniques that would allow many of the devices to be strung together to compute en masse, said physicist Jerry Simmons, leader of the Sandia development team.

And you know what the coolest part of this story is? Jerry Simmons is my brother! Go man, go! I can only hope that he'll remember the little people in his life when he sells this technology to chipmakers world-wide! *wink* Add a Comment?

Sco Emulates Win95 Contributed by CmdrTaco Wed Feb 18 12:06:03 1998 EST From the emulate-the-enemy dept. joe wrote in to tell us that SCO now has a Win5 emulator available. Read about it here. Between Wine, Wabi, OS/2 and others emulating 95, it's getting closer and closer to a point where you can try a new OS without giving up your old software. This is important stuff people. Read More... 27 comment(s)

New DES Clients Contributed by CmdrTaco [Encryption] Wed Feb 18 12:02:38 1998 EST From the bits-and-bytes dept. phi1abole wrote in to let us know that a new batch of Des Clients are available for download. This gives me a good chance to once again plug Slashdot's DES2 Team. We're ranked #8 overall. With over 2/3rds of the keyspace searched, this contest is almost toast. Read More... 5 comment(s)

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