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runawayprisoner · May 10th, 2008

Well, with Windows, there's a third bit. Microsoft introduced trinary a long time ago.

Concept of binary: zero and non-zero
Concept of trinary: zero, positive and negative
And you bet... using trinary, more than four cores is possible.

May 10th, 2008	#7 (permalink)
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