The biological cell (was: Erlang)
Rob Withers
reefedjib at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 18 05:03:13 UTC 2003
--- Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org> wrote:
> In hardware, an inverter that sends a message back
> to its input
> becomes a clock (this is because there is a delay).
> Two of these can
> be made into a flip-flop which is a more interesting
> delay. Etc.
It's a semaphore, for one thing. Perhaps the use of
Special relativity has to do with how fast a context
switch between processes can occur.
Sorry for shouting and blabbering, earlier. I got a
little jumpy,
Rob
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