On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:41:15AM -0400, Russell Reiter wrote: > Sorry that was just a reference to the fact that FDDI is deployed in the > past. You'd have to figure that if the effort was made to use a dedicated > fiber network in a complex, business or government, they'd still be using > it wouldn't they?
FDDI was 100 Mbit, so at this point having ripped it out and replaced it with gigabit or faster ethernet is quite likely. > The reference also said it's losing ground, but as with all things tech, > optical connections are becoming commonplace in IoT and old stuff becomes > new again. > > The paranoid me wonders if my computer speakers are a microphone also. :-0 They can be used that way in some cases. And many modern audio chips have pin routing configuration so you could remap the speaker jack as a microphone jack. Probably wouldn't work well, but I would not say it couldn't be done. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk