Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: DE and hot-swap disk caddies | Date | Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:39:53 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Then there is this talking around about the "tristate of some" device. > I'm really a bit sick of it. Becouse there is no such a state > like a tri-state. We have just bus drivers on both ends. > They are implemented usually as Schmidt triggers. They have three > possible states on output: low voltage, high voltage, high resistance.
Which is one, two, three states -> tri-state.
Electronics terminology then abuses that to mean the high impedance state (not high resistance please if we are going to be picky).
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