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To: Bernie Doehner <bad@uhf.wireless.net>
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
Subject: Re: Quad Pro 150 motherboard? 
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.95.970428133718.1713B-100000@uhf.wdc.net>, Bernie Doehne
r writes:

>Didn't anyone ever notice those neat traces between the CPUs and other
>devices on the MB?  The higher and higher you go in frequency, the shorter
>and shorter a wavelength becomes and the more and more these traces start
>to look like antennas. There's a physical limit as to how long these
>traces can be and this limit also affects how closely you can space CPUs,
>without setting up a CPU hierarchy.

Uhm, we're about an order of magnitude from that point yet...

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