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To: Scumbria who wrote (140555)	4/25/2001 4:10:38 PM
From: Bill	Respond to of 769667

It's more likely to get done in a small town than Harlem or Watts or any other Dem stronghold.

To: Scumbria who wrote (140555)	4/25/2001 4:14:24 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Dear scum. >>>>Designing and manufacturing a microprocessor requires a couple of billion dollars worth of investment, several major universities, and few dozen of the best engineers in the world. To this engineer I'd suggest that you have your head up your butt and once again cannot see the process in context. Designing integrated digital circuits requires several of some pretty good engineers. At least one or few first stringers in that area of expertise. But in todays age of very high bandwidth and inexpensive to the point of almost personal supercomputers, The engineers can live anywhere and conference in many ways. I see no requirement for any major universities. It may be a current practice to use cheap advanced degree candidates for some of the mundane work, but that's not a requirement. The manufacturing does require billions of dollars in capitol equipment but the equipment needs fewer and fewer very very dirty(unclean) humans to be involved in the process. Scum particles must be reduced to parts in a billion. So any or let's say many small towns could provide the resources to house several dozen of what ever group is required to design and manufacture a microprocessor or other advanced electronics. What few really understand is the cascading effect of computing power with computer aided design automation and it's ability to allow the few who really understand it to eliminate the need of cheap mundanes and change the 20, 80 rule to 5, 95. you all have a nice day now hear.

To: Scumbria who wrote (140555)	4/25/2001 4:26:30 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

As long as we're into non-answers, Jobs and Wozniak performed their magic in a garage. Does it matter where the garage was located? And quite incidentally you state you are tele-commuting your input on your project, so does it matter whether you are rural or city based? Aren't universities supported by all the citizens? I never made the claim of any innate superiority of city vs. rural. Pure sophistry!. I prefer my own method of superior insincerity and fooling.;^ I'm not sure that most small towns are up to the challenge.