Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!aglew From: aglew@oberon.crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Electro-optic bus Message-ID: Date: 30 Jul 90 20:12:49 GMT References: <1965@trlluna.trl.oz> <25939@nigel.udel.EDU> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Followup-To: sci.electronics Organization: University of Illinois, Computer Systems Group Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: berryh@udel.edu's message of 28 Jul 90 08:11:19 GMT If it's anything, I'd seriously think about space optics. Since I'm talking about a bus, I could imagine several GaAs LEDs (okay, not lasers) pointing up, with something to diffuse the light and spread it around to all of the Si CPU chips with their receivers on their top surfaces. Receive power and packaging was the reason I didn't state this in my first posting, although I did hint heavily. -- Andy Glew, andy-glew@uiuc.edu Propaganda: UIUC runs the "ph" nameserver in conjunction with email. You can reach me at many reasonable combinations of my name and nicknames, including: andrew-forsyth-glew@uiuc.edu andy-glew@uiuc.edu sticky-glue@uiuc.edu and a few others. "ph" is a very nice thing which more USEnet sites should use. UIUC has ph wired into email and whois (-h garcon.cso.uiuc.edu). The nameserver and full documentation are available for anonymous ftp from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, in the net/qi subdirectory.