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What is MUX?
Have you been to my site, and ask, "That Bobby Patel is one crazy guy.
Everyone whose sane, has nice simple URLs, but Bobby Patel has these really
weird URLs. "
I have created this section to give a brief overview (for now), and later
will fill it with more details.
So what is MUX you ask? MUX is short term for "mutliplexor", which
is a component in digital logic. A MUX has numerous inputs, and numerous
controls that the user can select as the ouputs. In the image below, you can see
4 inputs in0, in1, in2,in3 with 2 controls, ct1 and ct2. Turning the controls on
and off, in different combinations, will select the right input.
So how does this work with Bobby Patel's site? Well if we look at the url you
will see a "mux" follow my site url. This is actually a script
that is similar to the oval in the picture. The URL has the control switches in
it, namely the parts of the url that have a semicolon ':' in it. Depending on
which controls are set, the mux script will select the proper template
(in0,in1,in2,in3) and display the result to the user.
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