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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (73952)	2/18/1999 1:11:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Mary, Microprocessor design requires a very specialized set of skills. However, the tools are very good these days, and for the most part we only deal with ones and zeroes. x86 design teams are popping up all over the place as a result. What is usually the first thing to break in a car? The microprocessor of course. Scumbria

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (73952)	2/18/1999 4:30:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Mary, <most microprocessors are designed only within a few miles of where you live.> Wildly wrong statement. Microprocessors are designed not only in places you think, but every CS student usually designs one during his education! The difference between cars and chips is that cars cannot be so easily multiplied and reprinted with steppers as chips. Those who fooled the world with x86 and managed to have more printing machines rule the world now. It does not make x86 a Mona Lisa of microprocessors. "Intel architecture" is rather a Krueger, or Taxi-Man (or whatever ugly face you pick) in the computing world. Regards, - Ali