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Yup. PCIe will practically run over wet string, thanks to error detection and retransmits and other reasons, but try having a marginal DRAM bus and see how much
by marcan_42 5y ago
Yup. PCIe will practically run over wet string, thanks to error detection and retransmits and other reasons, but try having a marginal DRAM bus and see how much fun that is...
- vanderZwan 5y agoCould be a fun way to test and demonstrate robustness of various parts of computer hardware, actually. It's already been done with ADSL for example: [0] https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet-string.html https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet...
- marcan_42 5y agoMy comment was actually a self quote from a talk I gave about PS4 hacking where I described that PCIe will happily run over bare soldered wires without much care for signal integrity, at least over short distances (unlike what you might expect of a high-speed bus like that) :) Not literally wet string, but definitely low tech. ADSL is special though, not many technologies can literally run over wet string :-)
- vanderZwan 5y agoWell, then we could make it a scale of what the worst transmission medium is that two pieces of hardware can (sort of) communicate across :)
- cameron_b 5y agooff topic, but I commend the article if just for the conclusion