In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Magnus Danielson writes: >> This is less of a problem with modern CMOS based interface chips. > >Actually, there you end up in another problem, you power the box through the >protection diodes which you really must have for CMOS. So it is really not so >much better, just different.
This doesn't happen in any of the designs I've seen. They basically have a FET in series with the line and when the instrument is OFF, it is really OFF. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
