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> sort of like a networked channel controller on steroids. Huh?
by rusk 6y ago
> sort of like a networked channel controller on steroids.
Huh?
- nitrogen 6y agoThis is an unsearchable term. Even with the "arpanet" qualifier nothing relevant is returned. I did find this previous HN comment, also by gumby, on a similar article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14408209 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14408209
- gumby 6y agoThe wikipedia entry for channel controller is literally the first response when I type "channel controller" to duckduckgo.
- nitrogen 6y agoHa, of course :) This is what I got for searching for "networked channel controller": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=networked+channel+controller&sourceid=Mozilla-search&ns0=1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=networke...
- segfaultbuserr 6y agoWikipedia's built-in search is always difficult to use, especially, its "Did you mean..." is useless for correcting anything but basic typos. To be fair, it's a simple function anyway, there's no PageRank or NLP. Using site:wikipedia.org on a real search engine works better.
- theg5prank 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_I/O https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_I/O
- rusk 6y agoThanks, had to do a bit of digging on from there. This is more illustrative https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_709 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_709 Basically it’s the forebear of the “switch”