copper

<hardware>

Conventional electrical network cable with a core conductor of copper (or aluminium!), as opposed to other kinds of connection like a light pipe or microwave link.

[Jargon File]

Last updated: 1994-11-30

Copper Distributed Data Interface

<networking>

(CDDI) FDDI running over conventional copper cables. A Cisco/Crescendo copyright term(?). All FDDI connections, single-attached or dual-attached, can be either optical fibre or copper.

Last updated: 1994-12-14

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copious free time ♦ copper ♦ Copper Distributed Data Interface ♦ coprocessor

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