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August 30th, 2001, 07:55 PM
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 Total Fibre Optic computer???!
I overheard somebody saying that they made a total fibre optic PC...in other words all the buses, cards, HDD, etc were linked together via fibre optics....even went on to say that they were burning up CPU's left and right cuz it couldn't keep up wtih the bandwidth...does this seem feesible to any of you?!?  <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
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August 30th, 2001, 08:30 PM
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I hardly think a CPU would burn up because its peripherals were capable of feeding it faster than it could take it. That would be like saying an 8088 with an Ultra SCSI 160 HD would fry. The CPU would just do what it could and everything else would just wait its turn....
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August 31st, 2001, 03:45 AM
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Too bad it didn't look cool like those fiber-optic christmas trees 
well eventually someone's going to have a way to do it right, but not now, as everything isn't fast enough for it.
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August 31st, 2001, 06:06 AM
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That would be an interesting idea. hmmm.. 
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August 31st, 2001, 06:47 AM
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Weird. The only 'fiber' pc I've heard was the use of light in a cpu, but it is not close to having a design that will work.
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September 1st, 2001, 01:54 PM
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September 3rd, 2001, 06:05 PM
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With the current fibre technology that i know of, I do not think it is possible, the computer would be massive because with current technology, the fibres would not fit. if they shrank it however then the possibility is good. Electrons, photons, whats the difference, they all transmit the signal.
Whith the release of an ALL fibre computer though, all you guys in R&D will be out ob th ejob because theoretically light speed is as fast as were ever gonna get (now just if they made a photo HDD)
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September 4th, 2001, 10:28 AM
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Will I went to a HP meeting last week.
They are comming out with a really cool Rack server.
Its almost full fiber. This will run fiber cables from scsi drives etc..
The backbone will transfer 2 gb /sec
I forgot alot of the specs but this server will spank. They were saying on a 2gb connection (which it can do with a upgrade option later from the 1 gb) you can backup other machines within mins. But I should try to get more info on this server.
Sorry I dont have very much info. But HP is still in the works with this.
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