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From: bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Mass produced custom chips
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Date: 24 Apr 91 05:58:21 GMT
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In article <COLWELL.91Apr23090526@pdx023.pdx023> colwell@pdx023.pdx023 (Robert Colwell) writes:
>There's an auto museum near Cape Cod, Mass., with a
>display near the front door of the logos of all the car
>companies that existed from 1910 through the present day.
>It's quite sobering to see how many there once were
>compared to how many survive today.  Imagine what it would
>take to start up a new one nowadays.

Ca. 1926 there were over 350 auto manufacturing companies in
the USA alone.  Now there are 3.  (If you count Saturn as 4,
you aren't paying attention.)

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