Disregarding custom OS that will probably be made first.
Quantum circuits aren’t general-purpose computers—they’re added to conventional computers to allow them to perform a small handful of algorithms more efficiently. I don’t believe any of those algorithms would benefit the basic features of an operating system enough that it would make sense to modify an OS to require the use of one.
(Although I could totally see Microsoft doing something like only licensing their circuit’s drivers to run on Windows.)
they are effectively GPUs
QPUs
Exactly. If they do ever become a thing, if thats even possible, it would be a special card like a graphics card.
TempleOS
if we could build one for real, maybe King Terry will still be alive today
neither, you need to have a totally new architecture
Finally we can tell the console people we will have PC 2!
I mean it seems more like a gpu in the sense it would be interacted with from a standard computer.
This is not how this works. One day in the future, when quantum computers have matured enough to do something actually useful instead of just quantum benchmarks, they still will not be general purpose systems.
The situation will be more like video cards at the moment: it would be a subsystem doing something very specialized and limited, being controlled by a driver handing over certain jobs from the OS of the real processor.
Your quantum computer will have a device driver, that allows you to use it through your cluster. Just like your SAN.
To add to what most people are saying here, i also believe that quantum computing will evolve rapidly one day, with new algorithms being developed there is no telling if quantum computing will truly stay niche or specialized and can’t be expanded into general purpose computing. as tech is always evolving, i would argue that claiming that quantum processors stay akin to gpu’s. gpu’s are pretty much a sprecialization of the same stuff that builds a cpu, to my understanding. therefore, there is nothing truly proving that qpu’s can’t just evolve backwards into a parallel to cpu’s. besides, i can see it being favorable to keep only a qpu for most desktop platforms and only optionally a cpu that would be plugged into the equivalent of a pcie slot. that’s far fetched, but i also don’t think it’s too unreasonable.
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Honestly neither since we won’t have that in a PC sized containment for decades or ever.
