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Comment by vanderZwan

4 years ago

Could 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...

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marcan_42  4 years ago

My 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  4 years ago

    Well, then we could make it a scale of what the worst transmission medium is that two pieces of hardware can (sort of) communicate across :)