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DisplayPort 2.1b Arriving This Spring With DP80LL Cables

([Standards] 4 Hours Ago DisplayPort 2.1b)


In addition to the HDMI Forum [1]announcing the HDMI 2.2 specification for release in the first half of this year, VESA also took to CES 2025 to announce their forthcoming DisplayPort 2.1b standard.

Over DisplayPort 2.1, the DisplayPort 2.1b standard will support new DP80LL low-loss ultra-high bit-rate cables that can enable up to four-lane UHBR20 link rate support for a maximum throughput of 80 Gbps... Short of the 96 Gbps with HDMI 2.2 on Ultra96 cables, but even the 80 Gbps will be sufficient for the masses.

DisplayPort 2.1b is set to be released in the spring and with DP80LL cables will allow for up to 3x the cable length of existing UBHR20 GPU-to-display DP80 passive cables.

More details on today's DisplayPort 2.1b spec announcement via [2]DisplayPort.org .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.2-Announced

[2] https://www.displayport.org/pr/vesa-to-update-displayport-2-1-with-new-active-cable-specification-for-up-to-3x-longer-dp80-cables/


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Brief History Of Linux (#22)

RMS had a horrible, terrible dream set in 2020 in which all of society was
held captive by copyright law. In particular, everyone's brain waves were
monitored by the US Dept. of Copyrights. If your thoughts referenced a
copyrighted idea, you had to pay a royalty. To make it worse, a handful of
corporations held fully 99.9% of all intellectual property rights.

Coincidentally, Bill Gates experienced a similar dream that same night. To
him, however, it was not a horrible, terrible nightmare, but a wonderful
utopian vision. The thought of lemmings... er, customers paying a royalty
everytime they hummed a copyrighted song in their head or remembered a
passage in a book was simply too marvelous for the budding monopolist.

RMS, waking up from his nightmare, vowed to fight the oncoming Copyright
Nightmare. The GNU Project was born. His plan called for a kernel,
compiler, editor, and other tools. Unfortunately, RMS became bogged down
with Emacs that the kernel, HURD, was shoved on the back burner. Built
with LISP (Lots of Incomprehensible Statements with Parentheses), Emacs
became bloated in a way no non-Microsoft program ever has. Indeed, for a
short while RMS pretended that Emacs really was the GNU OS kernel.