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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (544621)1/18/2010 1:11:34 AM
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FOS, as per usual, Dave. The head of IBM thought that there might be a market for as many as FIVE computers. The people that developed the CPU didn't have the vision to make the leap to personal computers, - it took hobbyists to do it. And on and on..

Government needs to fund basic research, for which there IS no "payoff" seen. That's ONE of it's functions.
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