Re: gEDA-user: Building the PCB+GL branch [WAS: Re: Open GL survey (for PCB)]

["David C. Kerber" <dkerber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave McGuire
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 12:57 PM
> To: gEDA user mailing list
> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Building the PCB+GL branch [WAS: Re:
> Open GL survey (for PCB)]
>
> On Feb 6, 2009, at 12:36 PM, der Mouse wrote:
> >> And if I had a nickel for every time I've heard people, even
> >> knowledgeable people, incorrectly use the term "broadband" to mean
> >> "high-speed Internet connection" (when most such
> connections are, in
> >> fact, baseband)..
> >
> > They are?  DSL certainly isn't (the baseband there is the
> audio range,
> > which DSL specifically avoids) and,
>
>    My definition of "broadband" is "multiple communication
> channels sharing bandwidth on the same medium", which does
> not, IMO, describe DSL.  What is yours?

Well, a DSL line has voice and data bands on the same wire, separated by frequency division just like the channels on cable.  How is that fundamentally different?

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