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Date: Fri, 15-May-87 08:39:44 EDT
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In article <319@crys.WISC.EDU> mcvoy@crys.WISC.EDU (Larry McVoy) writes:
>
>And this bit about optics?  Optics?  What will that buy you?  Sure light
>travels fast but converting from electrons to photons is a drag.
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

So why bother? Have optical sensors on keyboards, direct light output on
your terminal screen. All comms can easily be optical fibre. No need to convert
optical disk information into electrical current. The only reason
for converting between electrons & photons is interfacing to the old electron-
driven computers.
       -Adam.

/* If at first it don't compile, kludge, kludge again.*/