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Article #10429Re: Mass produced custom chips
From: Blair P. Houghton
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1991 05:58
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1991 05:58
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In article <COLWELL.91Apr23090526@pdx023.pdx023> colwell@pdx023.pdx023 (Robert Colwell) writes: >There's an auto museum near Cape Cod, Mass., with a >display near the front door of the logos of all the car >companies that existed from 1910 through the present day. >It's quite sobering to see how many there once were >compared to how many survive today. Imagine what it would >take to start up a new one nowadays. Ca. 1926 there were over 350 auto manufacturing companies in the USA alone. Now there are 3. (If you count Saturn as 4, you aren't paying attention.) --Blair "It's trivial, it's irrelevant, it's the only thing you'll remember from today's news... Welcome to Usenet."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!ogicse!intelhf!ichips!iwarp.intel.com!inews!pima!bhoughto From: bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Mass produced custom chips Message-ID: <4001@inews.intel.com> Date: 24 Apr 91 05:58:21 GMT References: <6286@optilink.UUCP> <2548@spim.mips.COM> <COLWELL.91Apr23090526@pdx023.pdx023> Sender: news@inews.intel.com Organization: Intel Corp, Chandler, AZ Lines: 17