max@zion.berkeley.edu (Max Hauser) (08/02/87)
In article <1901@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes: >In article <19929@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, max@zion.berkeley.edu (Max Hauser) writes: >> 5. What is the "purple plague"? > > Undoubtedly the best question! Ain't no way that anyone other than >an old fart will know the answer to this one! And you certainly won't find >the answer in any book! I have to admit this is not completely true. Although I won't spoil the question by discussing the purple plague here, I will concede that microelectronics engineers, even recently trained ones, will have heard of the purple plague if they have a broad backgound. One of the contemporary texts mentions it in some depth (I just checked). However, I heard about it the same way Larry did, many years ago, and anyway there are not that many microelectronics engineers, especially on the net. Max Hauser