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Mike Raiford wrote:
> given the clean-room requirements and high-resolution photo-etching
> process.
Except that it's pretty much mostly automated. It's a huge capital expense,
and then automated after that. And when there's only a couple of fabs in the
whole world, the amount of business they get pays off the fab pretty
quickly. Basically the prices are set to make a decent profit by the time
the fab's technology is outdated.
> Not heard of GPIB, so I looked it up. Apparently aka IEEE-488 surprised
Wow. Even *I* heard of both of those years ago. :-)
> they're not using Ethernet or something less obsolete
Which ethernet? Thick? Thin Coax? cat-5? Test equipment like this is
expected to last decades.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
that the code does what you think it does, even if
it doesn't do what you wanted.
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