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From: mac@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU (M. Alex Colvin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: GaAs considered dead , indium phosphide, rod logic?
Summary: serial/parallel processes
Keywords: nanotechnology
Message-ID: <733@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 7 Dec 89 22:19:51 GMT
References: <7269@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1989Dec4.175854.456@mentor.com> <1989Dec6.014149.26600@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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nanomachines (or anything else) built with scanning microscopes can't be
very complex, or they'll take to long to build. the nice thing about
photolithography is that it's relatively independent of the nummber of
features.