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To: quidditch who wrote (206)	7/26/1999 11:57:00 AM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Steven - I thought that the new (i.e.incoming and former) CEO was one of the stalwarts in the anti-Q! Holy War. I agree but the apparent change in guard via a scapegoat allows him to change his position without losing face. On a completely different topic, you asked a while ago about the possibility of putting several processors on one ASIC and the ramifications of that. As you remembered, this was brought up several months ago and it was pointed out that while a user can tollerate local computer crashes and other errors, a wireless system cannot tollerate a subscriber going nuts on the system. A subscriber going nuts can wipe out all the other users in the cell. Thus, for instance, you want the processor and software running the PDA apps (apps which might come from anywhere and are not rigorously vetted) to be very very independent of the processor running the wireless protocol stack and DSP functions. This does not, per se, mean that the two processors must be on different chips, but they will probably always be very separate even when on the same chip. Clark