Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:26:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:26:01 -0500 Received: from mail8.cadvision.com ([207.228.64.93]:4100 "EHLO mail8.cadvision.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:25:54 -0500 Message-ID: <002101c1d686$c6b1fe40$0100007f@localdomain.wni.com.wirelessnetworksinc.com> From: "Herman Oosthuysen" To: "Linux Kernel Development" In-Reply-To: <20020328103854.O5099-100000@toad.stack.nl> Subject: Re: Offtopic: Re: DE and hot-swap disk caddies Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:31:28 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > > possible states on output: low voltage, high voltage, high resistance. > > Which is one, two, three states -> tri-state. Yeah well, what an EE means when she speaks of putting a buffer into tri-state, is that she put it into its 3rd state, which means its high impedance state. All EEs understand it that way, though it is not necessarily grammatically correct, so just get used to it... ;-) -- Herman Oosthuysen Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com Suite 300, #3016, 5th Ave NE, Calgary, Alberta, T2A 6K4, Canada Phone: (403) 569-5687, Fax: (403) 235-3965 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/