Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!oliveb!orc!decwrl!polyslo!news From: mdeale@sargas.acs.calpoly.edu (Myron Deale) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Here are five counterexamples Message-ID: <25ad2631.4695@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Date: 12 Jan 90 00:34:57 GMT References: <143@daedalus.nsc.com> <34315@mips.mips.COM> <483@berlioz.nsc.com> Reply-To: mdeale@sargas.acs.calpoly.edu.UUCP (Myron Deale) Distribution: usa Organization: ACS, Cal Poly, San Luis Lines: 35 In article <483@berlioz.nsc.com> andrew@dtg.nsc.com (Lord Snooty @ The Giant Poisoned Electric Head ) writes: >In article <34315@mips.mips.COM>, mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) writes: >> [list of US manufacturers..] >> There are dozens and dozens more; these are just a handful. > >it was ee times. i think they ought to know. >-- >Andrew Palfreyman andrew@dtg.nsc.com Albania before April! I only quoted that Moto was using a Nikon machine. EE Times has had other articles / industry news, about SEMAtech grumblings and such. SEMAtech is worried. I'm keeping my eye out. There seems to be a consistent theme developing however. The story goes something like this: "IBM is developing technology zzz. IBM may be willing to liscense this key technology once the patents are established. IBM stands to receive royalties for a number of years. [IBM saves US bacon from Japanese incursion]." Where technology zzz for this month happens to be X-ray lithography. Last month, DRAM's. I shouldn't complain, and I'm not lauding IBM, Lord forbid. Permit me an observation. It might be cheaper to buy-in to Thrifty, Circle K, 7-11, etc. [which fits TJ's theory of sub-companies]. Then suggest to board of chairmen to go where the money is, ie. Japan. So long mom-and-pop, or venda-machines. Perhaps we could export the Madison Avenue Advertising menace too. :) -Myron // mdeale@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu #import