henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (12/16/87)
> ... There is a Rand Corp report by Sutherland, Meade, and > Everhart on the limitations of silicon (there are other similar reports) > which chronicles about 9 generations of Silicon... One has to be very wary about believing such reports (I haven't seen this particular one, this is just a general warning). For every one-paragraph proof that technology X fundamentally does not allow Y, there is usually some bright young snot who can find a way around the "fundamental" limit that justified the original statement. My favorite is the IEEE Compcon paper circa 1977 that proved conclusively that it was impossible to build a 64Kb DRAM without abandoning optical lithography in favor of electron-beam or X-ray processes. -- Those who do not understand Unix are | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology condemned to reinvent it, poorly. | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry