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From: john@x.UUCP (John Woods)
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Subject: Re: Ballistic transistors, the Belle II chess machine, & Seymour Cray
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> > > >  Of course, the ballistic gate speeds (100 femtosecond range) ...
> > > about 10 picoseconds delay per gate ...
> > Nope.  Try Josephson junctions.  Gate delays less than 10ps ...
> "About 10ps" is compatible with that and both are far from 100fs.
> IBM was working on Josephson junctions when I was a youngster.
> What is the holdup?

Didn't you hear?  They filled their NSA contract shipments, and tore down
the assembly line...
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