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- From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
- Subject: Re: Cable Design Proposal
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.135930.20503@sei.cmu.edu>
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- Organization: The Software Engineering Institute
- References: <19328@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:59:30 GMT
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- In article <19328@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, Thomas W. Matthews writes:
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- |> If the interconnect is one meter long and has a propagation
- |> velocity (is that the right term?) one-quarter the speed of
- |> light, ten round-trip bounces (20 meters distance) would take
- |> 267 nanoseconds.
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- FYI, common conductors have propagation velocities of greater than 0.9c.
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- Rich
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