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- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!sgi!rhyolite!vjs
- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: Serial and Parallel interface ??????
- Message-ID: <np1lrmg@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <clemon.08gc@lemsys.UUCP> <1992Jul21.014904.5052@raven.alaska.edu> <clemon.08kw@lemsys.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 06:32:22 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In article <clemon.08kw@lemsys.UUCP>, clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon VE3XCL) writes:
- >
- > OK. Granted, serial links can be fast once you start shielding the
- > path. You can only go so fast on a serial line before the frequency of the
- > bits reaches RF range and cable losses on a normal "twisted pair" become
- > significant....
-
-
- Urgh. I just got through complaining at Craig Partridge for the
- opposite kind of claim.
-
- You do not need sheilding to get a lot faster than computer-to-modem
- cables will ever be.
-
- Consider the current "CDDI" draft standards, where data is moved over
- "data grade" twisted pair at 100Mbits/sec. That is about 3,333 times
- faster than v.fast. It is about 781 times faster than both of the
- B-channels of a 2B+D ISDN connection running at once. CDDI is good for
- 100 meters, which is about 26 times longer than classic RS-232, and
- using far cheaper and unshielded wire than the currently common modem
- cable.
-
- I understand that CDDI is likely to be FCC certifiable, both A and B,
- although only the commerical one is likely to be done at first.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-