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From: dorn@fabscal.UUCP (Alan Dorn Hetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting)
Message-ID: <572@fabscal.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 88 16:31:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: fabscal.572
References: <5423@juniper.uucp> <72886@sun.uucp> <635@ardent.UUCP> <73226@sun.uucp> <169@gloom.UUCP> <74011@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: dorn@fabscal.UUCP (Alan Dorn Hetzel, Jr.)
Organization: Fabscal Systems
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In article <74011@sun.uucp> landman@sun.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes:
>
>The 8 to 14 bit encoding has nothing to do with the error correction.
>It is used to make reading and writing easier since it limits the
>space between transitions.  ...

It also limits the maximum distance between transitions, which is the more
important function, actually.  This is done to prevent significant DC
components in the signal, which would raise hell with portions of the
electronics downstream.

Dorn