Hiya Will,
On 14-02-98, whilst lying in the gutter of the information super highway, I 
heard Will Hargrave whispering to Mike Bilow about Upgrade,
 MB>> Are you familiar with a "boa" used in mainframe environments?  These
 WH> What is it, then? Just very low loss coax?
If what it looks like counts (I've never took one apart) they're multiple 
thin coax's in a single sheath. About 20 or 30 in each cable and each channel 
on mainframe has two, Bus and Tag. I'm sure Mike can explain more about that 
though.
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