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Article #9182Re: Techno-welfare
From: Jonathan Leech
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 18:45
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 18:45
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In article <431@sierra.stanford.edu> brooks@sierra.UUCP (Michael B. Brooks) writes:
>My suspicion is that the pace of the IC industry growth benefited
>enormously from this freedom, and that if IR&D had to fund the 4Mb DRAM
>antecedents and associated technology (rather than NASA & USGov.), we
>would not see these at this time.
How do you explain the Japanese dominance in 4MB DRAMs with this
theory? MITI and JASDF aren't subsidizing the >$1G investment Toshiba
and other companies are making in this area.
--
Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu) __@/
"A compact set can be controlled by a finite police force no
matter how dumb." H. Weyl ca. 1938
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!thorin!cezanne!leech From: leech@cezanne.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Techno-welfare Keywords: Apollo, ICs, IR&D Message-ID: <11291@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Date: 21 Dec 89 18:45:59 GMT References: <8912181657.AA01075@aldrin.cray.com> <1989Dec20.150503.27019@cs.rochester.edu> <431@sierra.stanford.edu> Sender: news@thorin.cs.unc.edu Reply-To: leech@cezanne.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) Organization: University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 13