: :And you seen the nice square waves of 100Mb or !Gb ether on a line then? The :techniques used for transmitting 100Mb/s down copper are certainly not digital. :Pulse shaping, line estimation, ISI removal are all analogue! : :The cable itself is less improtant than the impedance matching at connectors :and bends in the cable. : :Duncan : :Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, :d...@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned.
Obviously you don't get square waves going down the wire - But it is still a digital communications protocol. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message