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From: bruceh@sgi.com (Bruce R. Holloway)
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Subject: Re: Optical Interconnect
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Date: 11 Apr 91 21:34:18 GMT
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In article <510001@hpsciz.sc.hp.com> peng@hpsciz.sc.hp.com (Peng Lee) writes:
>
>	The only non-optical interconnection for this device is the power and
>ground for each chip. 
>
>	While I was in school, I used to fatasize an one cubic inch
>workstation.  It is a stack of chips with lasers on top and bottom as optical
>sources.  This workstation data and address buses are optical interconnected
>with as much as 1 GByte/sec transfer rate even though the LC switch is
>only toggling at 10MHz. An one cubic inch Kille-Nano.
>
>	Let me know if anyone likes to build something like this.

Yeah, I'd like to build one.  I'd want at least one solar cell & color LCD
on the sides.  Then I could take it to the beach and look at the pictures.

Regards, bruceh