At 01:25 PM 1/19/99 -0500, you wrote:

"Fred A. Miller" wrote:

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How long will it be before we see "lightwave computers", which use optical switches, motherboards that run with microscopic fiber-optic channels, and have a laser to keep it flowing.

Running at Terra-hertz speeds.

Our copper-based boards will be antiques eventually.

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