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Re: I can't find this network cable!



Johannes writes:
> Hair splitter: a fiber *is not* a cable!

> If you insist on using a broader definition of cable to include fibers,
> then you should also use a broader definition of wire to include fibers,
> and then you end up that a "fiber optic cable" is not "wireless".

A cable does not always imply metal.  In nautical usage it can refer to a
large rope.
-- 
John Hasler



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