In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 07/21/2006
at 04:33 PM, "Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Gee, the time that a processor existed of a large number of
>transistors, efficiently bundled into a chip, is really ages ago.
Chip? That was new. Before that they were discrete components
connected with wires and traces on PC boards. There was a time when
they didn't even have the PC boards.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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