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@datenwolf
Oh, there's probably buried GPON here, too, in newer areas. But in my neighborhood, the copper was on poles.

@datenwolf @purple @futurebird @fivetonsflax @oscherler @argv_minus_one @CursedSilicon
GPON in my neighborhood is up on poles, but may well have been installed by poorly trained monkeys contracted to the ILEC. The ILEC is trying to get rid of their copper plant, yet they spun off their fiber plant to another company, so I guess they don't want to hassle with any plant.
It's entirely foreseeable that in 50 years, the fiber plant will be decrepit and in need of replacement, like copper now.

I'm gonna the next two to eight hours debugging one of my personal programming projects. If debugging goes well, maybe also adding features, but that's far less important.
It's a Z80 simulator in C++, but it is low-performance and not intended for "production" use. There are much better existing simulators for that.
#Z80 #simulator #retrocomputing
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@CursedSilicon @argv_minus_one @fivetonsflax @futurebird
It was asymmetric because they want to partition the frequency spectrum used into separate upward and downward bands, to avoid the computationally heavy need for full echo cancellation, and they both expected and wanted end users to be mostly consumers of content, not producers.
There was no _techincal_ reason it couldn't be reverse in the other direction, or fully symmetric (which existed: SDSL).
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