[kwooding]

Ever since my PhD work (where I worked with some pretty obscure computing architectures), the phrase “Von Neumann Architecture” makes think immediately of D H Lehmer’s quote [1] on working with ENIAC:

> Can we use the high speed computer to do the sieve process? This was a highly parallel machine, before von Neumann spoiled it.

[1]: https://history.computer.org/pioneers/lehmer.html

[x-shadowban]

Neat. It makes me wonder if there is work on mechanical computers at around the atomic scale.

[hn_throawlles]

yes, but they call that synthetic biology.

[bdamm]

Quantum computers.

[hn_throawlles]

that's sub-atomic scale? because particles? which are subatomic?

hmmmmm....