[geeks] OSX is going to ruin my life

Kris Kirby kris at catonic.net
Thu Feb 28 19:39:27 CST 2002


On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> An indication of technology pushing hard - remember the i486/50? (Not the
> DX/2, the true 50MHz)I remeber reading in Byte that the motherboard traces
> had to be curved, and that the "Megahertz limit" seems to have been
> reached.

~50MHz == 6 meter wavelength.

My father recently constructed a 2.75 wavelength antenna -- it's over 45
feet long!

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