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From: leech@cezanne.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Techno-welfare
Keywords: Apollo, ICs, IR&D
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Date: 21 Dec 89 18:45:59 GMT
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In article <431@sierra.stanford.edu> brooks@sierra.UUCP (Michael B. Brooks) writes:
>My suspicion is that the pace of the IC industry growth benefited
>enormously from this  freedom, and that if IR&D had to fund the 4Mb DRAM
>antecedents and associated technology (rather than NASA & USGov.), we
>would not see these at this time.

    How do you explain the Japanese dominance in 4MB DRAMs with this
theory?  MITI and JASDF aren't subsidizing the >$1G investment Toshiba
and other companies are making in this area.
--
    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
    "A compact set can be controlled by a finite police force no
     matter how dumb." H. Weyl ca. 1938