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From: cox@stpstn.UUCP (Brad Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Overused metaphors - Software ICs, etc.
Keywords: Software ICs
Message-ID: <5436@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 90 20:07:57 GMT
References: <23915@nigel.udel.EDU> <2088@esunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: cox@stpstn.UUCP (Brad Cox)
Organization: Stepstone
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In article <2088@esunix.UUCP: rtrosper@esunix.UUCP (Robert Trosper) writes:
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:Well - not to beat a dying horse. Let the Software IC myth go quietly
:into it's own good night. Useless things all go there anyway.
:
:				Robert Trosper

My crystal ball is no better than anyone else's. But just bear in mind 
that it was the cottage industry gunsmiths, and not interchangeable parts,
that were discovered to be useless during the industrial revolution.
-- 

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