Tunguska, the ternary computer emulator

http://www.acc.umu.se/~achtt315/tunguska/index.html

by dpkendal • 16 years ago

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bane• 16 years ago

Great stuff. Reminds me heavily of some time spent at uni studying old Soviet Ternary Computers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/setun.htm

The high level logic for wanting to build one seems sound, but then when you get into the nuts and bolts of it, binary systems are simpler and use less silicon. However, the kinds of logic gates are really quite fascinating (building the equivalent of a full-adder was really cool if I remember correctly)

Can't seem to find the site that has the logic diagrams, but I recall they were particularly intriguing.

RodgerTheGreat• 16 years ago

This[1] paper discussing "DSSP", the systems programming language of Setun computers is a very interesting read. It's rare that languages have design goals sufficiently similar to those of Forth to allow direct comparison.

[1] http://www.forth.org.ru/~dssp/msdos_e/papers/daf.txt

rmc• 16 years ago

It annoys me when FLOSS software sites have the 'News' as the front page (like this project). If I go to your site many times i probably know where to get the news, or get it another way (IRC, web forum, mailing list, etc.). However if it's my first time all I see is "please see the about section".

Tunguska, the ternary computer emulator

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