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Subject:Re: asserted, de-asserted From:Erik Harris <ewh -at- PLAZA -dot- DS -dot- ADP -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 26 Oct 1994 09:05:08 -0800
"De-asserted" is not defined in my Webster's 9th New Collegiate. Nor is
"asserted" defined in an electronics context. How is a signal "asserted"?
>The engineers here use asserted and de-asserted to describe
>what happens to certain signals.
>I am fighting the use of the word de-asserted.
>Am I wrong? Have you encountered these words?
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Quod erat demonstrandum
Erik Harris
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