From:	Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject:	Re: Real-Life Computing ...(OT, obviously)
Date:	Wed, 27 May 1998 11:50:36 +0100

And verily, did Phil Levis hastily scribble thusly...
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|On Tue, 26 May 1998, Robert Nesius wrote:
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|> Software for that project Golden Master). One of them told me that
|> when the bus speeds get up to 100mghz or so, current technologies only
|> allow for the bus to be 1-2 centimeters long. That's not much room to
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|This changes with optical technology. Light travels much faster than
|electricity.

When you're talking about high frequencies like that, the only difference
between light and the signals travelling down wires is the medium itself.

(The speed of light is *not* a constant. It changes depending on the medium
it's travelling through. i.e.

Free-space > 30 X 10^8 M/S
Wire (EM waves = EM radiation = Light [of very low frequencies]) Slower.
Fibreoptic cable. Slower. Faster than Wire, but still slower....

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