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Heat Emitted From Erasing a Single Bit 111  Posted by timothy
IBM Scientists Measure the Heat Emitted From Erasing a Single
Bit  Comments Filter:   • Was that really the spirit of what
Landauer was considering?     Why not measure the computer
memory such as he envisioned?       • Re:Spirit (Score:5,
Interesting)        by Ihmhi (1206036)
<i_have_mental_health_issues@yahoo.com> on Sunday March 11, 2012
@03:37AM (#39316785)        Yeah, it's kind of like a piece of
armor being considered arrow-proof, and then you fire an arrow
out of a railgun.        I wonder how you would even measure it,
though, and distinguish the heat from a bit changing from the
ambient heat from drive operation.      • Re:Spirit (Score:5,
Insightful)        by MacTO (1161105) on Sunday March 11, 2012
@03:45AM (#39316807)        It probably reflects the spirit of
Landauer's claims. Claims such as this depend upon an
understanding of physics, which was much more common in com