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Re: thoughts on gbc module reliability
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:19:24 GMT
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Russ Nelson <NELSON@CRYNWR.avoidspamCOM>
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John Brost writes:
> The idea of the spec was so that EVERY module could be put ANYWHERE
> in the GBC and it would all work. In the past, this has been bent
> so that modules that can't handle large batches are not placed
> downstream of a batch- output module, but overall throughput was
> still 1bps.
I agree with what you say about the 1bps spec, HOWEVER, look at what
has happened in the modular railroad world. Often you'll find
multiple modules which cooperate outside the specification. They can
go anywhere in the layout that two or three modules can go in line.
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| (...) If I understand what you mean, yes, you can make an arrangement of modules that satisfys the GBC spec input/output as a whol, even though they don't individually. That's fine (like Rafe's "supermodule", for instance). But then the individual (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: thoughts on gbc module reliability
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| (...) I'm not sure this is the way to do things... I don't want to seem cruel or anything (but I will be blunt), but this module of yours doesn't meet the GBC spec of 1 bps. It is your responsibility as a builder to make it fit the spec, not change (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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