Soft errors involve changes to datathe electrons in a storage circuit, for examplebut not changes to the physical circuit itself, the atoms.
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VMNET was first used in Europe in December 1989 and opened the door for EARN to share the same physical circuits used by the other organizations connecting to the Internet.
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Traditional telephone switches connected physical circuits ( e . g ., wire pairs ) while modern telephone switches use a combination of time slot ( say 1 or 2 ) on a physical wire pair ( A or B ).
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Starting in 1911, telephone networks used frequency-division multiplexing to carry several voice channels on a single physical circuit, beginning with the first Type C carrier in that year, which heterodyned three voice channels stacked on top of one voice circuit.
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One example might be a telephone in the lobby of a public building, which is programmed to ring only the number of a telephone dispatcher . " Nailing down " a switched connection saves the cost of running a physical circuit between the two points.
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What I mean by " strange loop " is here goes a first stab, anyway not a physical circuit but an abstract loop in which, in the series of stages that constitute the cycling-around, there is a shift from one level of abstraction ( or structure ) to another, which feels like an upwards movement in a hierarchy, and yet somehow the successive " upward " shifts turn out to give rise to a closed cycle.