[sdiy] mass extinction of the dinosaurs

[John L Marshall]

The Digital Heads think in only terms of 0 and 1. The transition from 0 to 1
IS analog. That is where significant engineering skill is required.

I point out in class that a nanosecond is about a light-foot.

----- Original Message -----
From: Magnus Danielson <cfmd at swipnet.se>
To: <bahi0387 at terra.com.br>
Cc: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] mass extinction of the dinosaurs


> From: Edu Silva <bahi0387 at terra.com.br>
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] mass extinction of the dinosaurs
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:59:11 -0300
>
> > In 20 years, we'll be making our own chips. SSM and CEM clones, if we
> > want. Analog, and even with tiny tubes inside.
>
> I can pass you a bunch of links if you want to do it today...
>
> At work, where we are dealing with digital telecommunications in
> multi-gigabitper second, I keep to annoy me fellow colleagues (which
> are digital heads) by exclamate things like "Lets fix an advanced
> digital problem with a simple analogue solution!" and actually got
> away with doing exactly this a couple of times and greatly outperform
> the digital stuff.
>
> Analogue is not dead, it has just expanded its operating area by 6
> decades in frequency ;O)
>
> Modern digital design still require a fair amount of analogue
> knowledge to get it to operate such as the digital theory predicts.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus - dears to be the analogue head in a digital world
>