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| DATE | 2004-09-05 |
| FROM | Billy
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Registers
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From: Billy
To: Steve Milo
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Subject: Re: [hangout] Registers
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On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 03:59:35PM -0500, Steve Milo wrote:
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> If I am correct regsiters are sometimes called a collection of switches or
> gates.
>
> If registers are supposed to hold a charge until a certain condition is met
> wouldnt capacitor be appropriate?
No. They're memory cells. What they're holding is state, not necessarily charge.
Don't worry about the hardware implementation, because there's more than
one way to do it. You can build a memory cell out of a pair of NAND
gates, for example (free of charge!). Or you can build it out of
ferrite cores (no charge there, either), or pulses of light (look ma!
no charge!). Just don't think about it unless you really really care.
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