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Why hasn't 128 bit been introduced yet? (alien.top)
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x86 came out 1978,

21 years after, x64 came out 1999

we are three years overdue for a shift, and I don't mean to arm. Is there just no point to it? 128 bit computing is a thing and has been in the talks since 1976 according to Wikipedia. Why hasn't it been widely adopted by now?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

More importantly, why hasn't anyone invented a 3-way flip-flopper/capacitor/resistor/transistor so that we can finally use a trinary system instead of the outdated binary system?

You could store like ~85 different pieces of information into 4 bits, rather than a measly 15 different pieces of information in 4 bits of binary.