| From: | Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK> |
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| Subject: | Re: unidirectional datalines |
| Date: | Mon, 18 May 1998 13:17:20 +0100 |
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|Paul Gettle wrote
|>Wow. A -Workable- solution to the FAB net problem. Now if someone
|>could make a decent explanation for unidirectional datalines from
|>Neo-A's Guide to Real Life.
|
| Unidirectional FO cable has been around for something like 5 years. The
|send end of the cable has a one-way window mirror type thing. Signal can
|go out but incomming gets physically bounced back. I forget the *exact*
|principal as well as where I read it (some science mag) so don't take my
|word for it.
All I'd like to say is.... Why bother?
If you don't want to send or receive data at one end of a dataline, just
exclude the transmit/detect side of the circuitry. Simple, and cost
effective. You can't read someones data if they've not got a laser on the
end to send the data down after all....
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