Matt Sergeant wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > > > [For those of you who didn't study elettronic, MOSFET transistors have > > sources, drains and gates. Sources generate electrons, drains consume > > them and gates control the flow] > > And in computing terms, a drain has for a long time been called a "Tee". > See tee(1).
No, a BJT transistor is a tee, a MOSFET is simply a controlled pipe. > > So, at the end we get: > > > > 1) pipeline: g -> t* -> s > > 2) source: g -> t* > > 3) drain: t* -> s > > 4) aggregator with parts > > 5) router with drains (bah, don't really like the name router, but I > > can't think of anything better) > > > > Comments? > > It's fine and obvious and called a Tee, and part of XML::SAX::Machines > (and part of everyone's Perl SAX toolkit for a long time before that). > But then you guys *never* read stuff when I post Perl links, so I don't > know why I even bother. I did Matt. Honest. But I don't know enough Perl to understand something out of it :( -- Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Friedrich Nietzsche -------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]