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by 0xcde4c3db 897 days ago
Right. And not only is the general approach the same (which one could credibly blame on a sort of "parallel evolution" driven by the changing economics of transistors vs. pins in chip manufacturing), but in some cases the relevant standards literally incorporate parts of Fibre Channel by reference. It was seeing the DisplayPort spec cite the ANSI Fibre Channel PHY standard to define its specific 8b10b code (there have been several, due to the inherent redundancy of that type of code; cf. the choice of the 2 "extra" symbols in base64) that started me down the rabbit hole.