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From: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net>
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Subject: RE: Intelligent Debugging Tools...
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:45:00 -0500
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On Wednesday, April 24, 1996 9:20 AM, Cat Okita[SMTP:cat@ghost.uunet.ca] wrote:
@On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
<snip>

@or on the drive. External termination is right out in front of your eyes.
@
<snip>

@Being overly used to the world of unix-designed machines (ie: sun, dec...),
@it was a really nasty shock to discover that PC's *normally* terminate
@on the drives...
@
@cheers!
@cat
@
@

Yes and vacuum tubes had little orange filaments that you could "see"
through the glass and this told you they were working. There was a pin
with filament voltage and you knew just where to wire it. Life was great.

With Integrated Circuits the filament(s) are "hidden" inside. They are
so tiny that you can not see them and to top that off, the designers
were able to eliminate the pin. The miracles of modern science....;-)

--
Jim Fleming
UNETY Systems, Inc.
Naperville, IL 60563

e-mail: JimFleming@unety.net