Re: dumb question: what is the antonym of "memoryless"?

On 27 Apr 2006 18:59:59 -0700, "robert bristow-johnson"
<rbj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

i'm sure you can see the root to this question. "nonmemoryless" is a
double negative and clumsy.

when categorizing systems into dichotomies, we might have:

time-variant vs. time-invariant
linear vs. nonlinear
casual vs. acausal
???? vs. memoryless

what's the best word for this? what prefix means "having"? the
opposite of "sans"?

r b-j

Wow, long thread, no solution.

In the communications world channels are typically "memoryless" or
"multi-path".

The channel "memory" comes from some paths having longer propagation
delay than others, so in this context "multi-path" is the antonym for
"memoryless".

There are other mechanisms which can cause the same sort of thing,
like micro-reflections in cable plants, so I think the context may be
important.

Eric Jacobsen
Minister of Algorithms, Intel Corp.
My opinions may not be Intel's opinions.
http://www.ericjacobsen.org
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