A physical one it’s just light bouncing back and forth, but a digital one (when sharing screen for example) the computer has to create the image
Does it have limited number of loops or something?
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I once nearly crashed IBM’s network. We’d just gotten the ability to remote to other computers, so of course we had to fool around with it. I connected from my computer to a cow-orkers, then tried to use his to connect back to mine. It refused, so we connected to a third computer then back to mine.
Started getting the ‘hall of mirrors’ effect, but couldn’t move the mouse to disconnect, it just reloaded the screen constantly. Other people started complaining about the network running slow. Ended up having to yank the network cable (token ring, this was so long ago) to stop it.
It was showing an uncountable number of windows. There is a limit to processing power, and it will eventually start to run out and get slower and slower, and probably crash. Like getting too many things on the screen in a game and the framerate drops.
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