Re:The technology inside Apple's $50 Thunderbolt cable
by wmf on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:24PM
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The chips are doing some kind of signal conditioning; they're hardly NICs.
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Re:The technology inside Apple's $50 Thunderbolt cable
by simcop2387 on Thursday August 18, 2011 @08:49PM
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If I had to make an analog to any kind of networking device, it'd probably be a MAU, or possibly an AUI+MAU. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Medium_Attach...