In article , Lee
wrote:

You can sometimes get away with slightly longer cables if they are
shielded.

The shielding may not be the problem. With any parallel data, long line
lengths can give rise to "data skew" where some bits of the byte arrive out
of sequence. I don't know how long the cable needs to be to see the effect,
but it happens.


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