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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
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Subject: Re: Optical Interconnect
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Date: 12 Apr 91 13:05:22 GMT
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In article <1991Apr11.213418.26877@odin.corp.sgi.com>, bruceh@sgi.com (Bruce R. Holloway) writes:
>>
>>	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.....  . 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.

No! No! "Top" covered with a solar cell, one side with color LCD, one side
with CCD so you could TAKE pictures (Yah, who said technology couldn't have a
practical use). 

     Signature envy: quality of some people to put 24+ lines in their .sigs
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